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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):90-91; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn018
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oral History Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, Please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Reclaiming the Ancestors: Decolonizing a Taken Prehistory of the Far Northeast

Pauleena MacDougall

Maine Folklife Center

RECLAIMING THE ANCESTORS: DECOLONIZING A TAKEN PREHISTORY OF THE FAR NORTHEAST. By Frederick Matthew Wiseman. Hanover, New Hampshire and London: University Press of New England, 2005. 1287 pp. Softbound, $24.95.

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Author Frederick Wiseman, a scholar of Abenaki descent with training and experience in archaeology, has created a unique work that combines scientific data from archaeological sites with Wabanaki knowledge of history. The Wabanakis pass this knowledge down orally, creating a traditional oral history of their society. Wiseman defines the region or culture area of his study as "Wabanakik" including the Abenaki of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, and Penobscots, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, and Micmacs of Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Wiseman describes Wabanaki . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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