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Choosing Survival: Wabanaki Documents at the Maine State Archives

Exhibit from 2012- Present

Text by:
Micah A. Pawling, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Native American Studies & History
University of Maine, Orono

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John Gardner’s Survey Map of Nemcass Point (or Governor’s Point) on Big Lake (watercolor), containing 100 acres for the Passamaquoddy Tribe
Letter from Dr. Charles E. Given to Maine Secretary of State
Petition of Maliseet Lewis Tomer and fourteen others from New Brunswick to the State of Maine
Petition of Penobscot governor John Attean (with separate petition by Peol and Louis Tomer) to the Maine Governor and Council
Petition of Captain Deacon Sockbasin on behalf of the Passamaquoddy Tribe
Petition of the Chiefs of the Penobscot tribe of Indians praying a law may be passed to prevent the destruction of fish in the Penobscot River