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Sep 19, 2026
John GreenmanNARRATOR
There had been none too much stalking between him and that big gray.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
The Indians, stretched out on their backs, gazed at the sky.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
Nothing fretted them much.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
On one side an Indian and an Irishman were having a passage at wit.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
It was French Joe that nailed Billy.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
Billy, he told me so, came from the group under the birches.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
From among the Indians out in the sunlight arose a persuasive Irish voice.
John GreenmanNARRATOR
Why is it, Toma, that when your folks are good Catholics and our folks are good Catholics, you don't ever name your children Patrick and Bridget? And the reply came quick.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.
speaker_3NARRATOR
I have seen Penobscot Indians in this town living in tents of thin cotton cloth while the snow was nearly a foot deep around them, and I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Formerly, when how to get my living honestly with freedom left for my proper pursuits was a question which vexed me even more than it does now, for unfortunately I am become somewhat callous, I used to see a large box by the railroad, six feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night, and it suggested to me that every man who has hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and having bored a few auger holes in it, to admit the air at least, get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free.
speaker_3NARRATOR
This did not appear the worst, nor by any means a despicable alternative.
Ari SnyderHOST
From Maine Public Radio and MainePublic.org, I'm Ari Snyder with the news on this day in Maine, Thursday, September 17th, 2026.
Ari SnyderHOST
The Penobscot Nation is celebrating the return of about 11,000 acres of ancestral homeland around the Penobscot River near the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.
Ari SnyderHOST
It's the first phase of a land return project between the tribe and the Trust for Public Land.
Ari SnyderHOST
Penobscot Nation Natural Resource Director Chuck Loring says the collaboration recognizes the tribe's wisdom in stewarding natural resources.
Chuck LoringSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It gives the tribes that autonomy to be able to you know, to figure out what they want to protect and what they want to work with and what they want to work on.
Ari SnyderHOST
Loring says the Penobscot Nation hopes to restore stream buffers, monitor ticks, and track bat species, and potentially create a southern entrance to the national monument.
Ari SnyderHOST
The Trust for Public Land aims to transfer another 20,000 acres once they raise an additional $12 million for the project.
Ari SnyderHOST
State officials say calls about human encounters with wild animals are up this year in Maine, but the number of rabies cases has not increased.
MikeHOST
There's a type of rock that's found here that I found interesting, and I noticed it, and I did research after the fact, because I noticed this rock was a little different, and it turns out that it's called rhyolite, and it's a type of rock found there.
MikeHOST
It's used to make tools, and it was used for trade by the Penobscots, and actually the history of trade of that goes way back.
MikeHOST
It's a volcanic rock.
MikeHOST
And it's not found in many other places in New England.
Betty BNARRATOR
He had to go back to land and he asked his old grandmother.
Betty BNARRATOR
Among Indians, this title is often only a mark of respect and does not always indicate any blood relationship.
Betty BNARRATOR
Meili Muninques, the woodchuck, what he could do.
Betty BNARRATOR
She told him to follow a certain road up the mountain.
Betty BNARRATOR
Again he consulted his grandmother, and she told him that he must set Wuchhausen free.
Betty BNARRATOR
So he once more bore Wuchhausen back to his mountain, first making him promise not to flap his wings so constantly, but only now and then.
Betty BNARRATOR
so that the Indians might go out in their canoes.
Betty BNARRATOR
Upon his consent to do this, Glooskabe mended his broken wings, but they were never quite so strong as at first, and thus we do not now have such terrible winds as in the olden days.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
As long as she lives, the Penobscots may be considered extant as a tribe.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The succeeding morning, a relative of mine who was well acquainted with the Penobscot Indians, and who had been my companion in my two previous excursions into the Maine Woods, took me in his wagon to Old Town to assist me in obtaining an Indian for this expedition.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
We were ferried across to the Indian Island in a bateau.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The ferryman's boy had got the key to it, but the father, who was a blacksmith, after a little hesitation cut the chain with a cold chisel on the rock.
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ExpatriateNARRATOR
We frequently passed Indian islands with their small houses on them.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The governor, Etienne, lives in one of them in Lincoln.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The Penobscot Indians seem to be more social even than the whites.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Ever and anon in the deepest wilderness of Maine, you come to the log hut of a Yankee or Canada settler.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The woodpecker spears him, and thereby saves many a dinner for himself.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Here is a primitive Indian fish spear, such as the Penobscots used.
speaker_0NARRATOR
To the end of a long pole, two wooden jaws are tied loosely enough to spring apart a little under pressure, and midway between them, firmly driven into the end of the pole, is a point of iron.
speaker_0NARRATOR
When a fish was struck, the jaw sprung apart under the force of the blow, guiding the iron through the body of the fish, which was held securely in the hollow above, that just fitted around his sides, and by the point itself.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.
speaker_3NARRATOR
I have seen Penobscot Indians in this town living in tents of thin cotton cloth while the snow was nearly a foot deep around them, and I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Formerly, when how to get my living honestly with freedom left for my proper pursuits was a question which vexed me even more than it does now, for unfortunately I am become somewhat callous, I used to see a large box by the railroad, six feet long by three wide, in which the laborers locked up their tools at night, and it suggested to me that every man who has hard pushed might get such a one for a dollar, and having bored a few auger holes in it, to admit the air at least, get into it when it rained and at night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in his love, and in his soul be free.
speaker_3NARRATOR
This did not appear the worst, nor by any means a despicable alternative.
Betty B.NARRATOR
Grandfather Thunder.
Betty B.NARRATOR
During the summer of 1892, at York Harbor, Maine, I was in daily communication with a party of Penobscot Indians from Old Town, among whom were an old man and woman, from whom I got many curious legends.
Betty B.NARRATOR
The day after a terrible thunderstorm, I asked the old woman how they had weathered it in their tents.
Betty B.NARRATOR
she looked searchingly at me and said, it was good.
Betty B.NARRATOR
He had to go back to land and he asked his old grandmother.
Betty B.NARRATOR
Among Indians, this title is often only a mark of respect and does not always indicate any blood relationship.
Betty B.NARRATOR
Meili Muninques, the woodchuck, what he could do.
Betty B.NARRATOR
She told him to follow a certain road up the mountain.
Betty B.NARRATOR
Again he consulted his grandmother, and she told him that he must set Wuchhausen free.
Betty B.NARRATOR
So he once more bore Wuchhausen back to his mountain, first making him promise not to flap his wings so constantly, but only now and then.
Betty B.NARRATOR
so that the Indians might go out in their canoes.
Betty B.NARRATOR
Upon his consent to do this, Glooskabe mended his broken wings, but they were never quite so strong as at first, and thus we do not now have such terrible winds as in the olden days.
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