Michael Shaughnessy, president of Friends… Read more Chief Polin, who championed saving the Presumpscot River, honored in Westbrook with memorial

From the Guardian Newspaper Joel Holmberg was appalled by vitriol against indigenous people. So he invited them to live on… Read more Canadian man offers to share his land with family of First Nations

Maine singer-songwriter Lisa Redfern created a ballad expressly or Mr. Shay. “I was honored to tell part of his life… Read more Ballad of Charles Shay- Penobscot Veteran

“This will forever change the way we approach offshore archaeology.” By PETER DOCKRILL 1 MAR 2018 Researchers have uncovered a… Read more ‘Unprecedented’ Native American Burial Site Found Off The Coast of Florida

A Trip to Flores, August 10, 1963 (Account written in 1963 by William A. Haviland)  From Maine Insights News  … Read more The Tale of 5 Tikal archaeologists on the town in Guatemala, 1963 – one from Maine

The bow paddler in this birch bark canoe is Bill Haviland; in the stern is Steve Cayard, its builder. The place… Read more Traditional Indian Birch bark canoes in ME

By Bill Haviland From Maine Insights News Among the many treasures housed in the Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society is a… Read more The original name of Deer Isle of Maine

By Bill Haviland In Maine Insights News Driving over Caterpillar Hill the other day, I stopped to admire the granite… Read more Maine Local Indians and the view from Caterpillar Hill

By Bill Haviland From Maine Insights News One of the more important of this region’s waterways is the Bagaduce River.… Read more Mi’kmaqs, Etchemins, and the original name of the Bagaduce River in Maine

By Bill Haviland From Maine Insights news Back in the days when scallop-dragging was a common winter activity around the… Read more Up from the depths: a stone axe and sea-level change in Maine