The Indigenous Story of Southern Maine
We have included in the database as much information about Indigenous individuals as we’ve been able to locate, including entries for Ramanascho, Sasagohaway. and Wane Doney, along with those with more recent ties to our area, including Joseph Nicolar, Lucy Nicolar Poolah, and Leslie Ranco. Yet the stories of most of the Indigenous people who lived here were not recorded and have been lost to us.
Scholarship by Dr. Emerson Baker of Salem State University suggests that the indigenous people that lived between the Kennebec River and Massachusetts Bay were called the Almouchiquois. Evidence from archaeology and ethnohistory points to these indigenous tribes being more closely aligned with their southern neighbors (i.e. the Pennacook) than the Wabanaki to the north or the Abenaki to the West.
The Brick Store Museum provides an overview of the Indigenous Story of Southern Maine which can be accessed by clicking on this link: