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Wabanaki Homeland And the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal And Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat (Native Americans of...
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by Micah A. Pawling
Sales Rank: 107016
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 300 pages
Published by: University of Massachusetts Press May 31, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1558495789
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1558495784
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Book Description
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.
A volume in the series Native Americans of the Northeast: History, Culture, and the Contemporary Published in conjunction with the Penobscot Indian Nation, Indian Island, Maine
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"This book should find readers among ethnohistorians, historical geographers, cartographers, Wabanaki people, Maine History buffs, and others with an interest in the Penobscot Valley. Micah Pawling's introduction sets the local context but also points to its greater significance. It offers a window onto a Native world at a time of dramatic change and it gives depth and detail to, and alternative understandings and readings of, a landscape that is being contested and transferred. The original journal and maps, like the book itself, are the product of intercultural collaboration."--Colin G. Calloway, author of "The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of America"
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