WABANAKI LIFE
A conical shelter covered by birch bark.
What is a wigwam?
This man, exploring for Spain, was the first European since the Vikings to reach the New World.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
By the early 1500's many people believed the Catholic church was corrupt, leading to this revolution in religious thought that prompted many people to leave the Catholic church and begin their own churches.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The first humans in Maine.
Who are Paleo-Indians?
In 1604 this island settlement was begun by French explorers Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain. A harsh winter and lack of natural resources led to the deaths of half the settlers leading to the settlement being abandoned in the spring.
What is the St. Croix settlement?
All the Wabanaki languages come from this language family.
What is Algonquin?
This explorer has the distinction of being the first European who's presence in Maine is clearly documented. He also has the distinction of being mooned by Maine's Wabanaki people.
Who is Giovanni de Verrazzano?
In the 1500's most European countries were ruled by this form of government in which a king or queen holds absolute power and authority.
What is a Monarchy?
A supernatural Wabanaki hero who they believe created the first humans.
Who is Gluskap?
A failed English colony that was settled in 1607 near the mouth of the Kennebec River, but following a harsh winter, the burning of the storehouse and the death of their sponsor, it was abandoned in the fall of 1608.
What is Popham Colony at Fort George?
A way of passing down culture and history through spoken stories and song.
What is oral tradition?
In 1605 this man became the first Englishman to make contact with the Maine Indians and began a distrustful relationship when kidnapped some of the tribesman including Nahanda, the chief.
Who is George Weymouth?
In 1559 Mr. David Ingram, an English sailor, returned from the New World with this tall tale of a beautiful paradise where houses had pillars of silver and gold.
What is the city of Norumbega?
The individual that taught Gluskap how to hunt respectfully.
Who is Grandmother Woodchuck?
A French settlement of 1613 on Mount Desert Island did not succumb to harsh winters or a lack of supplies, but to an attack by the English, who kidnapped the 2 missionaries and forced the settlers to travel east looking for French ships to take them home.
What is the St. Sauveur settlement?
What is alcohol?
This man, sent by England to explore the New World, gave our area the name New England. He later wrote a book titled "A Description of New England" and published it along with his famous map of New England.
Who is John Smith?
In the late 1400's these 2 new instruments of navigation were invented and allowed sailors to measure how far North or South of the equator they were, which allowed them to measure their location much more accurately.
What are the quadrant and the astrolabe?
The Micmac name for the month of October.
What is Animal Fattening Moon?
What is Plymouth?
Between 1616 and 1619 this percentage of Native peoples in Maine died due to diseases like chicken pox, measles and influenza.
What is 75%?
This French explorer and royal geographer came across an island in Penobscot Bay he described as "bare of trees, because there was nothing there but rocks". He named this island Mount Desert Island because of this deserted appearance.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
One of the primary reasons for European exploration was the search for this.
What is a passage to the East?
An ancient culture that buried their dead with elaborate tools and red ochre.
Who are the Red Paint People?
He was a wealthy English knight, the one time partner of the deceased Sir John Popham, and the legal owner of much of Maine. In 1630, with his Council for New England, he began giving land grants, fueling a new wave of settlement in Maine, forming towns we still have today like York, Saco, Scarborough and Falmouth.
Who is Sir Ferdinando Georges?