Front cover image for Twelve thousand years : American Indians in Maine

Twelve thousand years : American Indians in Maine

Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region known as Maine. This work reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, and other Native communities both accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments.
Print Book, English, 2004
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb., 2004
History
388 pages : illustrations, maps
9780803262317, 0803262310
56658556

Twelve Thousand Years

American Indians in Maine
By Bruce J. Bourque

University of Nebraska Press

Copyright © 2001 University of Nebraska Press
All right reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8032-6231-7

Contents

List of Illustrations...............................................................viiPreface.............................................................................xvAcknowledgments.....................................................................xixIntroduction: The Prehistoric Past..................................................1I  The Paleo-Indian Period..........................................................13II  The Archaic Period..............................................................37III  The Ceramic Period.............................................................75IV  An Introduction to the Historic Past............................................103V  Early European and Native Contacts...............................................111VI  The Second Half of the Seventeenth Century......................................129VII  The War Years..................................................................147VIII  The Era of the Mission........................................................171Epilogue: Land, Politics, and Survival to the Present...............................209Appendix:The Traditional Material Culture of the Native Peoples of Maine.....................249Notes...............................................................................311Bibliography........................................................................327Index...............................................................................355


Excerpted from Twelve Thousand Yearsby Bruce J. Bourque Copyright © 2001 by University of Nebraska Press. Excerpted by permission.
All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.

Originally published: 2001