Black Robe On The Kennebec

Author : Mary R. Calvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Abenaki Indians
ISBN : WISC:89064874860

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Black Robe on the Kennebec by Mary R. Calvert Pdf

"The Abenaki Indians called him "patlihoz," meaning Black Robe. The French in Quebec thought of him as a saintly man, possessed of great learning and dedication. The English in Boston called him a bloody incendiary, and were convinced that he was inciting Indian attacks on their frontier settlements in Maine. The controversy continues today: What was Sebastian Rale really like? In this volume Mary Calvert gathers together the complete story of Father Rale. Starting with his birth in 1652 and his upbringing near the border of Switzerland, she follows the trail of evidence leading through his Jesuit education and years of teaching in France; his assignment to the New World; his first meeting with Abenakis in Canada; and his perilous journey to far-off Illinois. Upon his return from the Illinois mission, Father Rale was assigned to the village of the Norridgewock Indians on the Kennebec River in Maine. Here he would live for most of the remaining thirty years of his life, preaching and teaching, corresponding with his family in France and his superiors in Quebec, and compiling a massive dictionary of the Abenaki language for which he is best known today. Death came suddenly August 23, 1724, when Rale was killed along with scores of his beloved Abenakis in an English raid. The story in largely told by Father Rale himself, in excerpts from his published and unpublished letters, and passages from his dictionary. The English point of view is shown through excerpts from colonial documents, and the author has sketched in the background of the French and English settlement of North America. The story is a dramatic one, set against the backdrop of bloody Indian wars and brave pioneer families, heartbreaking tales of captivity, religious clashes, tragic misunderstandings, adventures and narrow escapes that seem stranger than fiction. Above all, there is the intimate picture she draws of the proud Maine Abenakis of the colonial era, and the educated man who shared his life and soul with them. The story of Sebastian Rale is truly a Maine epic." -- Publisher's description

Author : Robert Coffin
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461744696

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Kennebec by Robert Coffin Pdf

Originally published in 1937 as part of the Rivers of America series, this book has become a classic of Maine literature. And only Robert P. Tristram Coffin could have woven this story of the majestic Kennebec and the people who lived beside it, from the Popham Plantation in the early 1600s to the 1930s. His intimate knowledge of the Maine landscape, his love for ships and the men who sailed them, and his warm feeling for the people who farmed the Kennebec's banks enrich every page.

Author : Henry D. Kingsbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Kennebec County (Me.)
ISBN : YALE:39002077302058

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Illustrated History of Kennebec County, Maine by Henry D. Kingsbury Pdf

Author : Michael Dekker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625855749

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French & Indian Wars in Maine by Michael Dekker Pdf

Covering nearly a century of conflict, this history chronicles the tragic, epic struggle for the land that would become Maine. For eight decades, a power struggle raged across a frontier on the north Atlantic coast now known as the state of Maine. Between 1675 and 1759, British, French, and Native Americans soldiers clashed in six distinct wars to claim the strategically vital region. In French and Indian Wars in Maine, historian Michael Dekker sheds light on this dark, tragic and largely forgotten struggle that laid the foundation of Maine. Though the showdown between France and Great Britain was international in scale, the local conflicts in Maine pitted European settlers against Native American tribes. Native and European communities from the Penobscot to the Piscataqua Rivers suffered brutal attacks. Countless men, women and children were killed, taken captive or sold into servitude. The native people of Maine were torn asunder by disease, social disintegration and political factionalism as they fought to maintain their autonomy in the face of unrelenting European pressure.

Author : Spencer C. Tucker,James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097579

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The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775 [3 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker,James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener Pdf

The only multivolume encyclopedia covering all aspects of North American colonial warfare, with special attention paid to the social, political, cultural, and economic affairs that were affected by the conflicts. Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775: A Political, Social, and Military History is the first multivolume resource on the full range of combat and confrontation in the New World prior to the American Revolution—not just rivalries between European empires but Indian conflicts, slave rebellions, and popular uprisings as well. Organized A–Z, the encyclopedia covers all major wars and conflicts in North America from the late-15th to mid-18th centuries, with discussions of key battles, diplomatic efforts, military technologies, and strategies and tactics. Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775 explores the context for conflict, with essays on competing colonial powers, every major Native American tribe, all important political and military leaders, and a range of social and cultural issues. The insights and information contained here will help anyone understand the genesis of North American culture, the plight of Native Americans after European contact, and the beginnings of the United States of America.

Author : Sarah Rivett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190492564

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Unscripted America by Sarah Rivett Pdf

In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered all of the secrets of the most beautiful languages in the universe." Unscripted America is a study of how colonists in North America struggled to understand, translate, and interpret Native American languages, and the significance of these languages for theological and cosmological issues such as the origins of Amerindian populations, their relationship to Eurasian and Biblical peoples, and the origins of language itself. Through a close analysis of previously overlooked texts, Unscripted America places American Indian languages within transatlantic intellectual history, while also demonstrating how American letters emerged in the 1810s through 1830s via a complex and hitherto unexplored engagement with the legacies and aesthetic possibilities of indigenous words. Unscripted America contends that what scholars have more traditionally understood through the Romantic ideology of the noble savage, a vessel of antiquity among dying populations, was in fact a palimpsest of still-living indigenous populations whose presence in American literature remains traceable through words. By examining the foundation of the literary nation through language, writing, and literacy, Unscripted America revisits common conceptions regarding "early america" and its origins to demonstrate how the understanding of America developed out of a steadfast connection to American Indians, both past and present.

Author : Christian P. Potholm
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739170045

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Maine by Christian P. Potholm Pdf

Maine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. It provides readers an overview of over four hundred books written about Maine, including the perspective which they provide. Topics such as "The Wild, Wild East," "Ethnicity Matters," "Women in Maine," and "Maine in the Civil War" stimulate the imagination and provide the most comprehensive synopsis of writing about Maine available.

Author : Alan Gallay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317487180

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Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763 (Routledge Revivals) by Alan Gallay Pdf

First published in 1996, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference resource that pulls together a vast amount of material on a rich historical era, presenting it in a balanced way that offers hard-to-find facts and detailed information. The volume was the first encyclopedic account of the United States' colonial military experience. It features 650 essays by more than 130 historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, and other scholarly experts on a variety of topics that cover all of colonial America's diverse peoples. In addition to wars, battles, and treaties, analytical essays explore the diplomatic and military history of over 50 Native American groups, as well as Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and Swiss colonies. It's the first source to consult for the political activities of an Indian nation, the details about the disposition of forces in a battle, or the significance of a fort to its size, location, and strength. In addition to its reference capabilities, the book's detailed material has been, and will continue to be highly useful to students as a supplementary text and as a handy source for reporters and papers.

Author : Brian Moore,Bruce Beresford,Lothaire Bluteau,August Schellenberg,Aden Young
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 044945066X

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Black Robe by Brian Moore,Bruce Beresford,Lothaire Bluteau,August Schellenberg,Aden Young Pdf

In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition faces the elements and hostile Indians.

Author : Jaime Marroquin Arredondo,Jaime Marroquín Arredondo,Ralph Bauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296013

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Translating Nature by Jaime Marroquin Arredondo,Jaime Marroquín Arredondo,Ralph Bauer Pdf

Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions of knowledge—knowledge that was later translated by the British, reading from Spanish and Portuguese texts. Translations of natural and ethnographic knowledge therefore took place across multiple boundaries—linguistic, cultural, and geographical—and produced, through their transmissions, the discoveries that characterize the early modern era. In the process, however, the identities of many of the original bearers of knowledge were lost or hidden in translation. The essays in Translating Nature explore the crucial role that the translation of philosophical and epistemological ideas played in European scientific exchanges with American Indians; the ethnographic practices and methods that facilitated appropriation of Amerindian knowledge; the ideas and practices used to record, organize, translate, and conceptualize Amerindian naturalist knowledge; and the persistent presence and influence of Amerindian and Iberian naturalist and medical knowledge in the development of early modern natural history. Contributors highlight the global nature of the history of science, the mobility of knowledge in the early modern era, and the foundational roles that Native Americans, Africans, and European Catholics played in this age of translation. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Daniela Bleichmar, William Eamon, Ruth Hill, Jaime Marroquín Arredondo, Sara Miglietti, Luis Millones Figueroa, Marcy Norton, Christopher Parsons, Juan Pimentel, Sarah Rivett, John Slater.

Author : Louise Ketchum Hunt
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798885315272

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In the Shadow of the Steel Cross: The Massacre of Father Sebastién Râle, S.J. and the Indian Chiefs - SPECIAL EDITION by Louise Ketchum Hunt Pdf

French Jesuit missionary, Father Sebastien Rale S.J. (1657-1724) arrived in Quebec, Canada. He quickly learned the native languages and started his dictionary for his school at his assignment in Maine among the Wabanaki people of the Norridgewock Tribe. He constructed a Church and the first school at the tribal home near the Kennebec River. The people quickly learned English and were able to read and understand the English way of handling treaties. More of their land was being taken for the natural forests, trees, wildlife and seafood. Shipbuilding along the coasts produced ships for England. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wanted Father Rale out of their way, so attacks happened several times. With a bounty of silver on his head, Father Rale and his people were attacked by the English soldiers. During the final attack resulting in the death of many tribal families, Father Rale was massacred on August 23, 1724.

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300128406

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The Protestant Interest by Thomas S. Kidd Pdf

During the early 18th century, New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This text shows how New Englanders abandoned their hostility towards Britain, instead viewing it as the chosen leader in the fight against Catholicism.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337893317

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The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins Pdf

The black Robe - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Maine
ISBN : WISC:89065282048

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Down East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Fiction
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013466218

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The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins Pdf