Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897. — 139 p. In the summer of 1882 and 1883, I was associated with Charles G. Leland in the collection of the material for his book “The Algonquin Legends of New England,” published by Houghton and Mifflin in 1884. I found the work so delightful, that I have gone on with it since, whenever I found myself in the neighborhood of Indians. The supply of...
Photographs by Mark Power. — Boston: Beacon Press, 1973. — 216 p. — ISBN: 0-8070-0518-5. Peter Anastas, who describes himself as "an old-fashioned localist of the psyche," has always been interested in Indians — especially the Penobscot Nation of Old Town, Maine. Glooskap's Children is the first book on the Penobscots in a generation, and one of few in the recent revival that...
Read before the Maine Historical Society, March 27, 1890. — Brown Thurston Company, 1890. — 30 p. "The origin and history of the Pre-Columbian inhabitants of America possess for the student of Anthropology an ever increasing interest. Not only is the attention attracted at every turn by constantly accumulating collections of the archaic belongings of the peoples who once...
Franklin Watts, 1995. — 64 p. — (A First Book). — ISBN: 0-531-20207-0. Some twelve thousand years ago, a large group of American Indian tribes known as Eastern Woodland Indians lived in the deep woodlands of eastern and northern America. They depended on surrounding forests for their survival. The earliest American Indians in the Northeast were hunters and gatherers, moving...
Chicago: Childrens Press, 1993. — 46 p. — (A New True Book). — ISBN: 0-516-01194-4. Describes the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Penobscot Indians. People of the Rocky River. A Year of Penobscot Life. Friends and Enemies. Changes for the Tribe. Wabanaki. Losing Their French Friends. A Nation With Heroes. Victory in the Courts. Words You Should Know.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1963. — 191 p. These stories, so far as we know, were first told in the wigwams of the Wabanaki Indians, long before the White Man came to North America. Later, white men learned them from the Indian, translating and preserving them in book form. In August, I960, I was invited to adapt the published Legends to a new art form, that of television,...
Fraiiklin Watts, 1996. — 64 p. — (A First book). — ISBN: 0-531-20227-5. Describes the history, culture, and traditions of the Abenaki Indians, one of the tribes found in the northeastern United States. The Abenaki. Abenaki Villages and Movement. Food. Family Life and Customs. Clothing and Utensils. Religion. Abenaki Chiefs. The White Invasion. Revival.
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