Old John Neptune And Other Maine Indian Shamans

Author : Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
Publisher : Portland, Me. : Southworth-Anthoenson Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old John Neptune and Other Maine Indian Shamans written by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and published by Portland, Me. : Southworth-Anthoenson Press. This book was released on 1945 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pauleena M. MacDougall
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073917911X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865–1946 written by Pauleena M. MacDougall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eckstorm was the daughter of a fur trader living in Maine who published six books and many articles on natural history, woods culture, and Indian language and lore. A writer from Maine with a national readership, Eckstorm drew on her unique relationship with both Maine woodsmen and Maine's Native Americans that grew out of the time she spent in the woods with her father. She developed a complex system of work largely based on oral tradition, recording and interpreting local knowledge about animal behavior and hunting practices, boat handling, ballad singing, Native American languages, crafts, and storytelling. Her work has formed the foundation for much scholarship in New England folklore and history and clearly illustrates the importance of indigenous and folk knowledge to scholarship. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865–1946 reveals an important story which speaks directly to contemporary issues as historians of science, social science and humanities begin to re-evaluate the nature, content, and role of indigenous and folk knowledge systems. Eckstorm's life and work illustrate the constant tension between local lay knowledge and the more privileged scientific production of academics that increasingly dominated the field from the early twentieth century. At the time Eckstorm was writing, the growth in professionalism and eclipse of the amateur led to a reorganization of knowledge. As increasing specialization defined the academy, indigenous knowledge systems were dismissed as unscientific and born of ignorance. Eckstorm recognized and lauded the innate value of traditional knowledge that could, for example, fell trees in the interior of Maine and ship them internationally as finished lumber.

Author : Joseph Nicolar
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340287
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Traditions of the Red Man written by Joseph Nicolar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVLargely unknown and uncirculated, this is the only 19-century book-length work in English by a member of the eastern, Algonquian speaking people. Published in 1893, Joseph Nicolar, elder and leader of the Penobscot nation, eloquently tells the story of t/div

Author : Bunny McBride
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496203879
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Dawn written by Bunny McBride and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make up the heart of the book. The narrative begins with Molly Mathilde (1665-1717), a mother, a peacemaker, and the daughter of a famous chief. Born in the mid-1600s, when Wabanakis first experienced the full effects of colonial warfare, disease, and displacement, she provided a vital link for her people through her marriage to the French baron of St. Castin. The sage continues with the shrewd and legendary healer Molly Ockett (1740-1816) and the reputed witchwoman Molly Molasses (1775-1867). The final chapter belongs to Molly Dellis Nelson (1903-1977) (known as Spotted Elk), a celebrated performer on European stages who lived to see the dawn of Wabanaki cultural renewal in the modern era.

Author : Jeffrey Myers
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820327440
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Converging Stories written by Jeffrey Myers and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that in US literature, discourse on the themes of race and ecology is too narrowly focused on the twentieth century and does not adequately take into account how these themes are interrelated. This study broadens the field by looking at writings from the nineteenth century.

Author : George F. Butterick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520318412
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson written by George F. Butterick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Author : Michael D. Burke
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527563820
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine's Place in the Environmental Imagination written by Michael D. Burke and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Maine’s Place in the Environmental Imagination address – from a variety of perspectives – how Maine’s unique identity among the states of the United States has been formed, and what that identity is: A place that is still imagined by others primarily through its environmental associations, its “nature” and landscape, rather than through its social arrangements and human history. The collection attempts a foundational study, not of a regional literature, but of a state literature. In doing so, it makes the case that Maine was constructed imaginatively and environmentally through its literature, and that this image is the one that endures even now. The essays suggest how this identity was formed, by discussing writings ranging from the recently recovered work of Joseph Nicolar, a member of the Penobscot Nation in the late 19th century, to the contemporary Maine author Carolyn Chute; from Thoreau’s canonical essay, “Ktaadn,” to the modernist E.B. White, whose works have an under-appreciated environmental project. Contributors include scholars Nathaniel Lewis, Annette Kolodny, Linda Kornasky, Daniel Malachuk, Kent Ryden, and Lynn Wake

Author : Jody Bachelder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1684750075
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here First written by Jody Bachelder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented his place in history. He was the first Indigenous person to make contact with the colonists at Plymouth Plantation, startling them when he emerged from the forest and welcomed them in English. The extraordinary thing about Samoset’s story is that he was not from Plymouth. He was not even Wampanoag, or Patuxet, who lived in the area. Samoset’s home was more than 200 miles away on the coast of present-day Maine. Why was he there? And why was he chosen to make contact with the English settlers? In addition to that first meeting in Plymouth, Samoset’s life coincided with several important events during the period of early contact with Europeans, and his home village of Pemaquid lay at the center of Indigenous-European interactions at the beginning of the 17th century. As a result he and his people, the Wawenock, were active participants in this history. But it came at great cost, and the way of living that had sustained them for centuries changed dramatically over the course of his lifetime as they endured war, epidemics, and a clash of cultures. This is their story.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156537
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maine Woods written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine--thus begins The Maine Woods, the evocative story of Thoreau's journeys through a familiar yet untouched land. As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian word meaning highest land), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River, and the East Branch of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in the wilderness. Throughout Thoreau invokes the forest of Maine--the mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and the people--in his singular style. Echoing Walden, Thoreau's passionate outcry against the degradation of the environment in The Maine Woods will resonate strongly today. This fully annotated gift edition of The Maine Woods makes a wonderful companion volume to Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition and I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau.

Author : Sam Stanley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110800020
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Economic Development written by Sam Stanley and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: