Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine
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Bangor Maine origins
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colonial frontier encounters
colonial survey records
contested borderlands
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cross-cultural alliances
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early 19th century American history
early American-Canadian borderlands
early survey expeditions
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Euro-American expansion
frontier mapping projects
historical cartographic analysis
historical geography of Maine
historical mapping of Indigenous settlements
Indigenous cartography
Indigenous environmental perspectives
Indigenous land use practices
Indigenous place-based knowledge
intercultural collaboration in mapping
intercultural history of New England
intercultural negotiation of space
intercultural tensions and cooperation
John Neptune Penobscot leader
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Maine statehood era
Major Joseph Treat expedition
Native American cartographic contributions
Native American historical figures
Native American knowledge systems
Native and settler relations
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Native land rights history
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Native sovereignty in Maine
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Penobscot Nation diplomacy
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river-centered worldviews
riverine landscapes
Saint John River survey
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treaty negotiations in 1820
U.S. territorial expansionism
U.S.-British boundary disputes
Wabanaki homeland studies
William King governor of Maine
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- ISBN 9781625342898
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 175 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 2017
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In late September 1820, hoping to lay claim to territory then under dispute between Great Britain and the United States, Governor William King of the newly founded state of Maine dispatched Major Joseph Treat to survey public lands on the Penobscot and Saint John Rivers. Traveling well beyond the limits of colonial settlement, Treat relied heavily on the cultural knowledge and expertise of John Neptune, lieutenant governor of the Penobscot tribe, to guide him across the Wabanaki homeland. Along the way Treat recorded his daily experiences in a journal and drew detailed maps, documenting the interactions of the Wabanaki peoples with the land and space they knew as home. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Micah Pawling, this volume includes a complete transcription of Treat's journal, reproductions of dozens of hand-drawn maps, and records pertaining to the 1820 treaty between the Penobscot Nation and the governing authorities of Maine. As Pawling points out, Treat's journal offers more than the observations of a state agent conducting a survey. It re-creates a dialogue between Euro-Americans and Native peoples, showing how different perceptions of the land were negotiated and disseminated, and exposing the tensions that surfaced when assumptions and expectations clashed. In large part because of Neptune's influence, the maps, in addition to detailing the location of Wabanaki settlements, reflect a river-oriented Native perspective that would later serve as a key to Euro-American access to the region's interior. The groundwork for cooperation between Treat and Neptune had been laid during the 1820 treaty negotiations, in which both men participated and which were successfully concluded just over a month before their expedition departed from Bangor, Maine. Despite conflicting interests and mutual suspicions, they were able to work together and cultivate a measure of trust as they traveled across northern Maine and western New Brunswick, mapping an old world together while envisioning its uncertain future.
Micah A. Pawling is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Maine.
