Special Collections Subject Guide: Native Peoples
Maine Native Americans Subject Guide
This subject guide includes selected resources concerning Native American People in Maine that are located in the Special Collections Department or are available on the Internet. These sources have been arranged into the following categories:
Bibliographies
Biographies
History – General
History – Penobscot
History – Passamaquoddy
History – Micmac and Maliseet
History – Other
Land Claims
Genealogy
Traditional Crafts
Folklore and Music
Language
Be sure to consult URSUS for resources located elsewhere in Fogler Library.
Bibliographies:
Maine Historical Society. The Indians of Maine and the Atlantic Provinces : a Bibliographical Guide, Being Largely a Selected Inventory of Material on the Subject in the Society’s Library, Portland, Maine Historical Society, 1977. Maine Z 1209.2 U52 M257
Maine Historical Society. The Indians of Maine : a Bibliographic Guide. 4th edition. Portland, Maine Historical Society, 1994. Maine Z 1209.2 M2 I6 1994
Nelson, Eunice. The Wabanaki : an Annotated Bibliography of Selected Books, Articles, Documents about Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot Indians in Maine, Annotated by Native Americans. Cambridge, Mass., American Friends Service Committee; Orono, Me., 1982. Maine Z 1210 A26 N44 1982
Maine State Library. Maine Indians : Topical Bibliography of Books in [the] Maine State Library. Augusta, Me., 1977. St. Docs. L 69.8:In3/977
Biographies:
Eckstorm, Fannie H. Old John Neptune and Other Maine Indian Shamans. Orono, Me. : University of Maine at Orono [Press], 1980. (Previous ed.: Portland, Me. : Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945). Maine E 99 P5 E3 1980
Maine Writers’ Research Club. Maine Indians in History and Legends. Portland, Me. : Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co., c1952. Maine E 78 M2 M35 1952
McBride, Bunny. Molly Spotted Elk : a Penobscot in Paris. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1995. Maine E 99 P5 S755 1995
Metallak, Last of the Cooashaukes: With the Life of David Robbins, the Story of Molly Ockett, the Adventures of Lieut. Segar and the Killing of the Last Moose. Rumford, Me. : Printed by the Rumford publishing co., 1928. Pamp 1604
Newell, Catherine S-C. Molly Ockett. Bethel, Me. : Bethel Historical Society, 1991, c1981. Maine E 99 P52 N49 1991
Smith, Marion Whitney. Thoreau’s West Branch Guides. Millinocket, Me. : printed by Ye Olde Print Shop ; 1971. Maine F 27 P5 S66
Smith, Marion Whitney. Thoreau’s Moosehead & Chesuncook guides. Millinocket, Me. : Ye Olde Print Shop, 1972. Maine F 27 P5 S65
Sockabasin, Allen J. An Upriver Passamaquoddy. Gardiner, Me.: Tilbury House, 2007. Maine E 99 P27 S53 2007
ssipsis. Molly Molasses & Me : a collection of living adventures. Brooks, Me. : Little Letterpress, Robin Hood Books, c1988. Maine E 90 S73 A2 1988
Wellman, Trina. Louis Francis Sockalexis : the Life-story of a Penobscot Indian. Augusta, Maine : Dept. of Indian Affairs, 1975. St.Docs. I 36.10:So2/975
History – General:
Baker, Emerson W. Trouble to the Eastward : the Failure of Anglo-Indian Relations in Early Maine. 1986, c1987. Maine E 78 M2 B34 1989
Calloway, Colin G. Dawnland Encounters : Indians and Europeans in Northern New England. Hanover : University Press of New England, c1991. Maine E 99 A13 C354 1991
Congdon, Isabelle P. Indian Tribes of Maine, with Particular Reference to Indian Activities in the Regions Around the Present Locations of Bath and Brunswick. Brunswick, Me., Brunswick Publishing Co. Pamp 630
Cook, David S. Above the Gravel Bar : the Indian Canoe Routes of Maine. Milo, Me. : The Author, c1985. Maine GV 776 M2 C65 1985
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, Papers SpC MS 158. Finding aid available online.
Favour, Edith. First Families : Woodland People of Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. Augusta : State of Maine Dept. of Educational and Cultural Services, Division of Curriculum, 1975. St.Docs. E 21.10:F44/975
————– Indian Games, Toys, and Pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes. Bar Harbor, Me. : Robert Abbe Museum, 1974. Maine E 98 G2 F3
Hitchner, Barbara Dunn, Papers SpC MS 248. Finding aid available online.
Leger, Mary Celeste. The Catholic Indian Missions in Maine (1611-1820). Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America, 1929. Maine E 98 M6 L51 1929
Maine Writers’ Research Club. Maine Indians in History and Legends. Portland, Me. : Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co., c1952. Maine E 78 M2 M35 1952
Morrison, Kenneth M. The Embattled Northeast : the Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki-Euramerican Relations. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984. Maine E 99 A13 M67 1984
Nelson, Eunice. A Collection of Articles on Maine Indians. [Cambridge, Mass.] : American Friends Service Committee, 1983. Maine Z 1210 A26 C64 1983
Nicholas, Andrea Bear. The Concept of Unity Among Indian Tribes of Maine, New Hampshire and New Brunswick: an Ethno-history. Bangor, Me. 1973?
Maine E 78 M2 B4
Procter, Ralph W. Report on Maine Indians. Prepared at request of Legislative Research Committee, September, 1942. St.Docs. L 38.10:In2/942
Rolde, Neil. Unsettled past, unsettled future: the story of Maine Indians. Gardiner, Me.: Tilbury House, 2004. Maine E 72 M2 R65 2004
Siegel, Beatrice. Indians of the Northeast Woodlands. New York : Walker, 1992. Maine Juv E78 E2 S53 1992
Sylvester, Herbert Milton. Indian Wars of New England. Boston : W.B. Clarke Company, 1910. Maine E 82 S98 – 12 vols.
Vetromile, Eugene. The Abnakis and Their History. New York : J.B. Kirker, 1866. Rare E 99 A1 V5 1866
——————- Indian Good Book. New York, E. Dunigan & Brother, 1856. Rare E 99 A13 V4
History – Penobscot:
Dillingham, Charles A. The Penobscots. Bangor: Record print, 19–? Maine E 99 P5 P457
Dorr, Jason M. Changing Their Guardians : the Penobscot Indians and Maine Statehood, 1820-1849. Thesis (M.A.) in History–University of Maine, 1998. Univ. 1998 D67
MacDougall, Pauleena M. The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People. Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press, 2004. Maine E 99 P5 M16 2004
Nicolar, Joseph. The Life and Traditions of the Red Man. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Maine E 99 P5 N54 2007
Shay, Florence Nicola. A Brief History of the Penobscot Indians. [S.l., s.n., 19–] Pamp 668
Speck, Frank Gouldsmith. Penobscot man; the Life History of a Forest Tribe in Maine. New York, Octagon Books, 1970. Maine E 99 P5 S7 1970
Speck Frank. Gouldsmith. Collection of Photographs. SpC MS 1431 sc
Treat, Joseph. Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. Maine E 99 A13 T748 2007
History – Passamaquoddy:
Leader, Judith C. An Ethnohistory of the Passamaquoddy of Maine. Thesis (Ph.D.)–Boston University, 1995. Maine E 99 P27 L42 1995
Soctomah, Donald. Hard Times at Passamaquoddy, 1921-1950. Maine: Passamaquoddy Tribe of Indian Township, 2003. Maine E 99 P27 S676 2003
History – Micmac and Maliseet:
Leavitt, Robert. Maliseet & Micmac : First Nations of the Maritimes. Fredericton, N.B. : New Ireland Press, c1995. Maine E 78 M35 L42 1995
Prins, Harald E. L. Tribulations of a Border Tribe : a Discourse on the Political Ecology of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs (16th-20th centuries). Thesis (Ph.D.)–New School for Social Research, 1988. Maine E 99 M6 P76 1990
History – Other:
Nash, Charles E. The Indians of the Kennebec. Hallowell, Me. : Valley Publishers, 1994. Maine E 99 A13 N27 1994
Rogers, Hannah Lord. History of the Tarratine Tribe with Brief Sketches of the Other Indian Tribes of Maine. Maine E 99 A13 H57
Starbird, Charles Millard. The Indians of the Androscoggin Valley : Tribal History, and Their Relations with the Early English Settlers of Maine. [Lewiston, Me.] : Lewiston Journal Printshop, 1928. Maine E 78 M2 S8 1928
Land Claims:
Brodeur, Paul. Restitution, the Land Claims of the Mashpee, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Indians of New England. Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1985. Maine KF 8208 B76 1985
Cohen, William S. Papers. SpC MS 106
Legislative Records: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs subseries
Maine. Dept. of the Attorney General [Background documents on the Indian Land Claims Settlement] St. Docs. Box 30
Pecoraro, Joseph. The Maine Indian Land Claims Case : Pro and Con. Augusta, Me.: Maine Dept. of Educational and Cultural Services, 1979. St. Docs. E 21.10:M28/979
Genealogy:
Saint Gertrude’s Church (Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada). A Copy of St. Gertrude’s Church Record Book of the Malecite Indians at Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada From the Year 1842 to the Present Day, Being a Record of Births, Baptismals, Confirmations, Marriages, Deaths and Interments. 1993.
Folio Maine CS 88 N5 C66 1993
Traditional Crafts:
Baskets of the Dawnland People. Calais, Me. : Project Indian Pride, [1980?] Maine E 78 M2 B3
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. The Handicrafts of the Modern Indians of Maine. Bar Harbor, Me. : Robert Abbe Museum, 2003. Maine E 78 M2 E3 2003
Hill, Judith Rose Lacadie. Survey of Materials and Construction Techniques of Maine Indian Splint Ash Baskets and Contemporary Interpretations. Thesis (M.S.) in Human Development–University of Maine, 1989. Univ. 1989 H553
Konrad, Lee-Ann. Artists of the Dawn : Christine Nicholas and Senabeh. [Orono, Me.] : Northeast Folklore Society, c1987. Maine E 99 P5 K65 1987
Lacey, Laurie. Micmac Medicines: Remedies and Recollections. Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus, 1993. Maine E 99 M6 L35 1993
McBride, Bunny. Our Lives in our Hands : Micmac Indian Basketmakers. Gardiner, Me. : Tilbury House, c1990. Maine E 99 M6 M3 1990
Speck, Frank Gouldsmith. Symbolism in Penobscot Art. New York, The Trustees, 1927. In Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 29, pt. 2. Maine GN 2 A27
Folklore and Music:
Alger, Abby Langdon. In Indian Tents. Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1897. Maine E 99 P5 A39 1897
Beck, Horace Palmer. Gluskap the Liar, & Other Indian Tales. Freeport, Me., B. Wheelwright Co. [c1966] Maine E 99 P5 B4
Burlin, Natalie Curtis. The Indians’ Book; an Offering by the American Indians of Indian Lore, Musical and Narrative, to Form a Record of the Songs and Legends of Their Race. New York and London, Harper, 1907. Maine M 1669 B87 I5
Davenport, Linda Gilbert. Music Among the Contemporary Penobscot Indians. Thesis (M.Mus.)–University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977. Maine ML 3557 D38 1977
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. The Indian Legends of Mount Katahdin. Reprinted from Appalachia number of Bulletin of Appalachia Mountain Club, December 1924. Maine F 27 P5 E22
Historic Maine and Indian Mythology. [Consolidated Steamship Lines, 1906?]. Pamp 869
Ives, Edward D. Malecite and Passamaquoddy Tales. Orono, Me. : Northeast Folklore Society, 1964, c1965. Maine GR 1 N65 v.6 1964
Leland, Charles Godfrey. The Algonquin Legends of New England : or, Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. Maine E 98 F6 L5
LeSourd, Philip S., ed. Tales from Maliseet Country: The Maliseet Texts of Karl V. Teeter. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Maine E 99 M195 T35 2007
Maine Writers’ Research Club. Maine Indians in History and Legends. Portland, Me. : Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co., c1952. Maine E 78 M2 M35 1952
Smith, Marion Whitney. Katahdin Fantasies : Stories Based on Old Indian Legends. Millinocket, Me. : Millinocket Press, c1953. Maine F 27 P5 S62
———————— Strange Tales of Abenaki Shamanism. Lewiston, Me. : Central Maine Press, c1963. Maine E 99 P5 S6
Speck, Frank Gouldsmith. Penobscot Shamanism. Lancaster, Pa., American Anthropological Association, 1919. Maine E 99 P5 S718
Spotted Elk. Katahdin: Wigwam’s Tales of the Abnaki Tribe… Orono, Me.: Maine Folklife Center, 2003. Maine GR 1 N65 no. 37
Language:
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy. Indian Place-names of the Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast. Orono, Me. : Printed at the University press, 1941. Maine F17 E2
Masta, Henry Lorne. Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar andPlace Names. Victoriaville, P. Q. : La Voix des boisfrancs, [1932]. Maine 970.398 Ab71m
Nitawi skicinuwatu = I Know How to Speak Indian. Book I, Passamquoddy/Maliseet. Perry, Me. : Passamaquoddy/Maliseet Bilingual Program, 1988? Maine PM 2135 N57 1988
Passamaquoddy/Maliseet Reference Book. Perry, Me. : Passamaquoddy/Maliseet Bilingual Program, 1988. Maine PM 2135 Z5 P27 1988
Rasles, Sebastien. A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language in North America. Cambridge, Mass. : C. Folsom, 1833. Maine PM551 R3 1974
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