Books
→The Beginnings of Colonial Maine 1602-1658 by Henry S. Burrage
→“Books to Read,” a reading list from Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group,
https://www.miag-group.org/books.html
→Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
→Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
→The English New England Voyages 1602-1608, David B. Quinn and Alison M. Quinn, editors
→The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America by James Axtell
→Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
→Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England by Jean M. O’Brien
→The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations by Shirley N. Hager and Mawopiyane
→The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King, a unique perspective which includes Canadian Indigenous history
→Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford
→Indian New England Before the Mayflower by Howard S. Russell
→The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, an The Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings
→The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
→The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France 1610—1791, Vol. III Acadia 1611-1616, Reuben Gold Thwaites, editor (one of 73 volumes, available online),
http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_03.html
→Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England by Neal Salisbury
→Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, Etc. in the Captivity of John Giles, Esq., Commander of the Garrison on Saint George River, in the District of Maine by John Giles
→Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Dwight B. Heath, editor
→Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
→Penobscot Man: The Life History of a Forest Tribe in Maine, by Frank G. Speck
→Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution by Peter Ackroyd
→Rosier's Relation of Waymouth's Voyage to the Coast of Maine, 1605, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry S. Burrage D.D., (available online; note that his book begins on page 101) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=bc.ark:/13960/t8rc25750&view=1up&seq=101
→The Sagadahoc Colony, Comprising the Relation of a Voyage Into New England by Henry Otis Thayer
→Sailors Narratives Of Voyages Along The New England Coast, 1524-1624, George Parker Winship, editor
→Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his province of Maine: Including the Brief relations, the Brief narration, his defence, the charter granted to him, his will, and his letters, Vol. I, James Phinney Baxter, editor
→The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians by Patrick M. Malone
→Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776 by Alden T. Vaughan
→A Voyage into New England Begun in 1623 and Ended in 1624. Performed by Christopher Levett, his Majesties Woodward of Somersetshire, and one of the Councell of New-England by Christopher Levett
→Winthrop’s Journal “History of New England” 1630-1649 Volume I: Normal School, James Kendall Hosmer, editor (available online),
Articles, Dissertations, and Miscellaneous
→"'Abenaki' Group of Missisquoi: Research Findings Reveal Troubling Irregularities in the State of Vermont's Recognition Process," Abenaki Heritage's response to Darryl Leroux's article "State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting: The Case of Vermont," https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/0e/a2/d9a3e53b4964bbf1dbf002349f08/abenaki-heritage-press-release-dleroux-research.pdf
→“Articles to Read,” Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group, https://www.miag-group.org/articles.html
→“The Defeat of the Armouchiquois Savages by Chief Membertou and His Savage Allies, in New France, in the Month of July, 1607” by Marc Lescarbot (English Translation)
→“Life on the Edge: Community and Trade on the Anglo-American Periphery, Pemaquid, Maine, 1610-1689,” by Neill DePaoli
→“Membertou’s Raid on the Chouacoet ‘Almouchiquois’ — the Micmac Sack of Saco in 1607” by Alvin H. Morrison and Thomas H. Goetz
→“The People of the Dawn: The Abnaki and Their Relations with New England and New France, 1600-1727,” by Kenneth M. Morrison
→“Return the National Parks to the Tribes,” David Treuer, The Atlantic,
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/05/return-the-national-parks-to-the-tribes/618395/
→“‘A Scratch with a Bear’s Paw’: Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine,” by Emerson W. Baker
→"State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting: The Case of Vermont" by Darryl Leroux, about the four state-recognized Abenaki tribes in Vermont and the controversy about their claims to Indigenous identity, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gr0t78t
→“Trouble to the Eastward: The Failure of Anglo-Indian Relations in Early Maine,” by Emerson Woods Baker
→“Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine” by Frank G. Speck (available online),
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49951
Websites
→“Bounty Systems in Ckuwaponahkik, the Dawnland and the Eastern Woodlands,” Sutori and Upstander Project,
→“Maine Memory Network: 1500-1667 Contact & Conflict,” Maine Historical Society,
https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/895/page/1306/print
→“Maine Memory Network: Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history & art,” Maine Historical Society,
https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2976/page/4665/print
→“Maine Native Studies Resources,” Maine Department of Education, https://www.maine.gov/doe/learning/content/socialstudies/resources/mainenativestudies/resources
→“Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group,” Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group,
→“Native Land Digital” (map of Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages across the world),
→"Wabanaki Alliance," formed in 2020 to "educate people of Maine about the need for securing sovereignty of the tribes in Maine," https://www.wabanakialliance.com
→“Wabanaki REACH,” whose mission is to "support the self-determination of Wabanaki people through education, truth-telling, restorative justice, and restorative practices in Wabanaki and Maine communities," https://www.mainewabanakireach.org
→“Websites to Explore,” Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group,
https://www.miag-group.org/educational-resources.html
→WHERE2024, Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery, https://atlanticblackbox.com/in-2024-atlantic-black-box-and-our-partners-invite-you-to-join-us-on-an-epic-journey-of-collective-recovery/?mc_cid=cb89e43479#
Films and Lectures
→Bounty, Upstander Project, https://upstanderproject.org/films/bounty
→Dawnland, Upstander Project, https://upstanderproject.org/films/dawnland
→Fighting Indians, a film by Mark Cooley and Derek Ellis that "situates the debate over team mascots within the historical context of the indigenous subjugation in the United States going back to Columbus." https://www.videoproject.org/fighting-indians.html
→“Films to Watch,” Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group, https://www.miag-group.org/films.html
→Gather, a documentary by Sanjay Rawal about reclaiming sovereignty through ancestral foods, available on Netflix
→“Lecture & Event Recordings to Watch,” Midcoast Indigenous Awareness Group,
https://www.miag-group.org/lectureevent-recordings.html
→Native America by PBS, "a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country," https://www.pbs.org/show/native-america/
→‘Penobscot Sense of Place,’ a lecture by James Francis, Wednesday, February 26, 2020, YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYBmhQmp_zE
→Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, a documentary by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, who "takes a look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema," https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/reel-injun/
→Surviving New England’s Great Dying, NHPBS,
https://video.nhpbs.org/video/surviving-new-englands-great-dying-cz5lwy/
→The Territory, a documentary by Alex Pritz about "the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon," available on Disney Plus
→‘We the People’ - the three most misunderstood words in US history, Ted Talk by Mark Charles, YouTube,
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