Twelve thousand years : American Indians in Maine / Bruce J. Bourque ; with contributions by Steven L. Cox and Ruth H. Whitehead

Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine.

Contents: The paleo-Indian period -- The archaic period -- The ceramic period -- An introduction to the historic past -- Early European and native contacts -- The second half of the seventeenth century -- The war years -- The era of the mission -- Epilogue: land, politics, and survival to the present -- Appendix: the traditional material culture of the native peoples of Maine.*

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001

2001

xviii, 368 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-353) and index