Micmac Indians
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
AY125/ANT325/ANT425/AY197/198 Oral History and Folklore: Fieldwork
Collection
Identifier: MF130
Scope and Contents
Student papers on a wide variety of folklore and oral history topics, most focused on Maine traditions.
Dates:
1970-2014
Frederick Pratson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MF042
Scope and Contents
Independent collection of folklore material contributed to the Maine Folklife Center by Frederick Pratson. Contains interviews in connection with donor’s “Oral and Visual History and Talent
Development Program Among Indians and Inshore Fishing People of the State of Maine, The Canadian Maritime Provinces, and Quebec,” done under the sponsorship of the New England-Atlantic Provinces- Quebec Center at the University of Maine (Orono), 1972. The interviewees were a group of Nova Scotia...
Dates:
1972
Maine/Maritimes Folklore Collection/CP 180
Collection
Identifier: MF076
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of student papers. The early items are largely miscellaneous gatherings of individual items: jokes, tall tales, ghost stories, traditional medicine, popular beliefs and superstitions, legends, local character yarns, etc. and only occasionally include tape recordings. Later accessions reflect the trend in the field of folklore to emphasize context over items gathered for their own sake. Thus they are more apt to consist of life histories with an emphasis on life...
Dates:
1957-1975
Richard Silliboy, interviewed by Anu Dudley
Series
Abstract
3074 Richard Silliboy, interviewed by Anu Dudley, September 21, 2003, at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Silliboy speaks about moving from Gouldsboro, Maine, to Aroostook County; his mother Mary; tribal affiliation with the Presque Isle Micmacs; working at the Basket Bank Store in Presque Isle, Maine; making and selling Native American baskets; serving as the Economic Development Coordinator for the Basket Bank; problems finding wood and supplies for basketry; basketmakers Marlene,...
Dates:
2000-2004
Nicholas N. Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1788
Abstract
Papers and publications relating to Native Americans in the Northeast.
Dates:
1879-2019