Turmoil in Dawnland: European Discovery and the Wabanaki Fight for Sovereignty

The Province of Maine has a particularly rich early history. In the early 1600s the English and the French arrived, intent on discovery and settlement and the native Wabanaki responded with valiant efforts to defend their homeland. This book describes that 150-year long period of European settlement and Wabanaki fight for sovereignty in three parts.

The first outlines the discovery period (1600 to 1630), when explorers, including Samuel de Champlain, George Waymouth, and John Smith, arrived ...