Two Maliseet Derivatives in Current Maine and New Brunswick Forestland Speech: Logan and Bogan
Year: 1984
Type: article
Abstract: When Henry Thoreau visited the area beyond the headwaters of the Kennebac and Penobscot, the Indians he came in contact with were probably Maliseet. 1 Further, the various non-Indian co~tacts he madeloggers, surveyors, hunters -probably had had more exposure to Maliseet culture than to any other Algonquian culture.To be sure, he was accompanied on his second trip and on his third by Indian guides -by Joe Aitteon on the second, by Joe Polis on the third.Both were Penobscot, hence Eastern Abenaki; but once north of Millinocket on the east and Moosehead Lake on the west or, better, once in what is now Piscataquis County -particularly in the Allagash area -his contacts with Penobscots were likely to have been minimal since Indians there were Maliseet, people belonging to the land covering the lower half of New Brunswick and almost all the uppermost fourth of Maine. 2 Thoreau made three trips into the Maine logging wilderness.He made the first in September 1846 and visited the Katahdin region.He made the second in September 1853 and visited Chesuncook .Lake.He made the third mid-summer of 1857 and this took him further north than the two preceding trips.He reached Chamberlain Lake, a feeder lake of the Allagash and not very distant from the Saint John, which, although it rises in Maine, is traditionally the great artery of the New Brunswick logging industry.3 Presumably Thoreau made journal entries on each trip and from these produced the three essays which eventually were lumped together in 1864, two years after his death, and published under the title The Maine Woods by Ticknow and Field of Boston.The editor was Thoreau's friend William Ellery Channing, who appears to have been given assistance by Thoreau's sister Sophia.When the first two essays are cited by lexicographers, however, the Ticknow and Field year is not used.The first essay,
Source: Names
Author: Donald B. Sands
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2045417273