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Monson, Maine

Last Updated Dec-2008

Wabanaki Family Names Known Here

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Wabanaki Events That Occurred Here

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Bits & Pieces from Books, news-clippings, etc.

  • Indians from Indian Point were marooned in town for one week and stayed in what was then known as the Long Barn at the now Erwin and Erma Small house on Main Street, because of a snow storm in late October. [1886]
  • In 1922, there were quite a number of summer cottages situated at Indian Point. This land was given by Eben and Lucy Bray in 1890, when a corporation was formed and lots were laid out. An Indian family whose name was Rain-in-the-Face were the last to live on Indian Point.

Ne-Do-Ba Comment - - - Rain-in-the-Face would be a stage name and not an actual Wabanaki family name.

 

A tribe of Indians called Kickapoos pitched tents down by Tarr's (now John Durham House). They gave free entertainment every night and sold Indian medicine in the summer of 1888.

Source: Journal of Sadie Emerson

Ne-Do-Ba Comment - - - She is referring to the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Show. Although there is a western tribe of that name, this was actually a commercial outfit that traveled around selling medicine. Some members of the outfit were Native, but some just dressed up and pretended to be "Indians" to sell their goods. John Johnson traveled with them for a time.

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