These resources by and about the Wabanaki have been compiled by historian and Maine-Wabanaki REACH Health and Wellness Coordinator Maria Girouard:
American Friends Service, Wabanaki of Maine and the Maritimes: A resource book about Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, (1989) – resource book now out of print but available in most libraries.
Pauleena MacDougall, The Penobscot Dance of Resistance (2004) – historical overview.
Bunny McBride, Women of the Dawn (1999) – historical fiction.
Bunny McBride and Harald Prins, Indians in Eden: Wabanaki and Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island 1840s – 1920s (2009) – historical overview.
Neil Rolde, Unsettled Past, Unsettled Futures, Tilbury Press (2004) – historical overview.
Siobhan Senier (editor), Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England (2014).
Gkisedtanamoogk (Wampanoag) & Hancock, Anoqcou - Ceremony is Life Itself.
Ssipsis (Penobscot): Molly Mollasses & Me and Poems, Prayers, and Pathways – contemporary poetry.
Isabelle Knockwood (Mi’kmaw), Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, NS (2001)
Donna Loring (Penobscot), In the Shadow of the Eagle (2008) – contemporary/ legislature journal.
Daniel N. Paul (Mi’kmaw), We were not the Savages (2000)
Mihku Paul (Maliseet) 20th Century PowWow Playland, Bowman Books, Greenfield, NY (2012) – contemporary poetry and prose.
Allen Sockabasin (Passamaquoddy), An Upriver Passamaquoddy (2007).
Donald Soctomah (Passamaquoddy) - Compilations of news stories about the Passamaquoddy:
Hard Times at Passamaquoddy, 1921-1950; Let Me Live as My Ancestors Had; and Passamaquoddy at the Turn of the Century, 1890-1920
FILM: “Invisible,” Hansen, Westphal, Francis (2004).
FILM: “N’tolonapemk: Our Relations Place – The Passamaquoddy People and the St. Croix River Watershed,” Passamquoddy & Acadia Film Video (2006).
FILM: “Penobscot: The People and their River,” Penobscot Nation & Acadia Film Video
FILM: “Wabanaki: A New Dawn,” Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission (1995) accessible on-line at www.mitsc.org
American Indian Quarterly, edited by Devon A. Mihesuah, accessible on-line, is a leading Native scholarly journal highlighting native studies, sovereignty, and the survival of native nations.
Oyate, a native-run informative website particularly useful for educators seeking to identify appropriate books and resources about Native Americans. www.oyate.org
