Canoe Indians of Down East Maine

William A. Haviland

Canoe Indians of Down East Maine
Format
Paperback
Publisher
History Press (SC)
Country
Published
17 July 2012
Pages
128
ISBN
9781609496654

Canoe Indians of Down East Maine

William A. Haviland

In 1604, when Frenchmen landed on Saint Croix Island, they were far from the first people to walk along its shores. For thousands of years, Etchemins–whose descendants were members of the Wabanaki Confederacy–had lived, loved and labored in Down East Maine. Bound together with neighboring people, all of whom relied heavily on canoes for transportation, trade and survival, each group still maintained its own unique cultures and customs. After the French arrived, they faced unspeakable hardships, from the Great Dying, when disease killed up to 90 percent of coastal populations, to centuries of discrimination. Yet they never abandoned Ketakamigwa, their homeland. In this book, anthropologist William Haviland relates the history of hardship and survival endured by the natives of the Down East coast and how they have maintained their way of life over the past four hundred years.

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