The central issue in this action is whether the Secretary of the Interior was correct in finding that the United States has no "trust relationship" with the Tribe
I was wondering this same thing when it was mentioned earlier in the article. It didn't seem true because of some of our previous readings.
85 laws relating to educational services and facilities for the Tribe
How much control did the tribe have over the type of educational services/content? I am interested to know more about these negotiations and if Maine had certain requirements as far as curriculum goes.
Maine had mismanaged tribal trust funds, interfered with tribal self-government, denied tribal hunting, fishing and trapping rights, and taken away the right of members to vote, from 1924 to 1967
This reminds me of the letters and the land claims settlement. The Maine government has been taking land and rights from the Native people since the 1700's but this court case pretty recent (1975). It is interesting to see how history keeps repeating itself.
It seems like the Natives were willing to bring up their problems to the government right away. I can imagine that they were not taken seriously
Am I correct in understanding that Samuel Hussey is advocating for the Penobscot Tribe and that the governor wanted to stop funding them?
They are treating the Penobscots like trading cards or property
Had the Penobscots been paying the government or vice versa? What annuity?
I think that this whole letter is two or three sentences
Even though this letter is from 1822, it fits into a lot of our current environmental struggles. It is comforting to know that people cared about the environment so long ago and saw the dangers of machines early on.
Are any of the signatures from Penobscots?
p. 3 They described the land that the Penobscot tribe would get as if it was something that was theirs to give away. Was it a lot of land? (It's difficult for me to tell from this document)
I looked it up and $400 in 1818 is about $8,700 today. This must have been a very important agreement/discussion
Nice handwriting. Very fancy
p. 134 It says that the destruction of Indigenous languages serves economic and political interest. Will this be beneficial for the government long term? I believe that this kind of destruction, of language and environment, will only have catastrophic effects for those directly affected and for those doing the destruction. This is horrible.
p. 135 If all of these benefits of language immersion are known, why is the practice not more widely supported?
On page 132 it states that Canadians and Americans are probably aware of the linguicide in boarding schools. I think that many Americans are unaware of this policy due to the structure of our history curriculum in schools now. It often leaves out the heinous things we did to Native Americans and particularly Native American youth.
Upon completing the conservation, Nancy Asch Sidell (Archeobotanical Consulting,Guilford, Maine) determined the wood was coniferous with no resin ducts visible at70magnification, which limited potential species to fir, hemlock, or cedar. The grainwas“medium-textured”rather than fine-textured at 70magnification, eliminatingnorthern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis) and Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparisthyoides). Asch Sidell further observed a gradual transition in size between early woodand late wood pores rather than an abrupt transition usually evident in hemlock.Finally, at 800, a few well-preserved cross-field pits on the radial surface were taxodi-oid in shape (characteristic of fir) rather than piceoid/cupressoid (characteristic of east-ern hemlock), which Asch Sidell identified as balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
It must take so much training and skill to be able to study and identify trees to such detail as this.
conducted for approximately 10 months or until there was no detectable salinity whensampled
What is the purpose of regulating the salinity of the object?
the Cape Porpoise canoe exemplifies the value of citizen science initiatives, collaborative efforts between professional and avocational archaeologists who can permit sustained archaeological attention to particular stretches of eroding coastline and facilitate rapid response to threatened sites and artifacts.
To me, it also exemplifies the craftsmanship and skill of the Native people from these time periods.
due to rising sea levels and the increased frequency of severe storms, archaeological sites are exposed rapidly, revealing uniquely preserved materials, among them watercraft
It's crazy how climate change is affecting every aspect of life on Earth
stern was heavier and thicker than the bow and was distinctly squared out on the inside; the bow being thinner, broader, and coming to a blunt point.
What is the purpose/advantage of this design? Is there a way to find out?
Unfortunately, many canoes recorded in the early nineteenth century have not survived
Is this due to natural degradation? How did the one in this article survive?
Adze marks visible on the canoe undergoing preservation
How are they able to tell these marks apart from regular wear and tear?
anticipated dimensions of the canoe
How did they estimate how big the canoe was before uncovering it?
The most thoroughly excavated nearby site, ME 5.06 (about 10 km away), is the site of a “village” described by Champlain at the mouth of the Saco River
This sounds right about where UNE is
The pre-European archaeology of the southern Maine coast remains one of the least understood for coastal Maine.
Are there plans to study these areas more?
Roanoke
Did we ever figure out what happened?
Poc-ahontas and John Smith
It seems like we only know the names of Native Americans who have had a place in white American history
“culture contact”
I have never heard this term before. What does it imply?
dis-courses of identity, gender, labor, race, sex-uality, and inequality
These discourses are still evident today. It feels like we are all of a sudden becoming more accepting/agreeing but the struggle really has been going on for a long time.
Euro-Americans today,whose authenticity or claim to being cul-tural descendants of European colonistsseveral centuries ago is never questioned
I wonder why that is
“colonization” is re-stricted to describing the movements andsettlements of people with no implicationof power relations (Rowlands 1998a)
This seems to me like glossing over what actually happened during colonization. Clearly there were power struggles that continue to this day
and not expand the local to the sta-tus of the universa
What does this mean? Assume that small communities live by the same rules/cultures as everyone else?
neocolonialism
Where do we see examples of neocolonialism?
In temporal terms, “post-colonial”therefore pertains to a distinct period inworld history—namely, the aftermath ofEuropean imperialism post–World War II
This seems very recent considering colonialism had been going on for centuries before WWII
Asarchaeologists, our professional and intel-lectual concern with the past makes veryclear to us that these inequalities originatefrom the colonial experiences of our coun-tries
This should be obvious to everyone and not just archaeologists