Asticou's Island domain: Wabanaki peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000 : Acadia National Park ethnographic overview and assessment Volume 1

Prins HE and McBride B. 2007. Asticou's Island domain: Wabanaki peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000 : Acadia National Park ethnographic overview and assessment Volume 1. National Park Service, Northeast Region Ethnography Program. Boston, Massachusetts

A two volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park that spans almost 500 years. ----------- Chapter 1: Introduction: Mount Desert Island as historical & anthropological problem; Chapter 2: Ethnographic baseline: Wabanaki cultures c.1600; Chapter 3: European explorers on the Wabanaki coasts, 1500s; Chapter 4: Seafaring tarrentine traders and raiders; Chapter 5: The downfall of Mawooshen; Chapter 6: Contested island in the shadow of Fort Pentagoet; Chapter 7: Rise and demise of Chief Madockawando; Chapter 8: Heroic defence of the homeland, 1703-1774; Chapter 9: The American revolution and Wabanaki marginalization, 1775-1840; Chapter 10: Wabanakis and rusticators, 1840s-1920s; Chapter 11: Anthropologists and conservationists at Mount Desert Island; Chapter 12: Myth of the vanishing Wabanakis, 1930-1960; Chapter 13: Wabanaki rights & culture revitalization, 1960s-Today. /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/ISLE AU HAUT/SCHOODIC PENINSULA/ISLANDS/

Type
Published Report
Authors
Prins, Harald; McBride, Bunny
Date of Issue
2007
Publisher
National Park Service, Northeast Region Ethnography Program
Units
ACAD
Keywords
History, Islands, Isle Au Haut, Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula

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