Studying the relationships of this lake and river with their human communities through time

Time and water flow, and we all live downstream of the consequences

ORIENTATION NOTE:

The Sebago Presumpscot region is within Mawooshen, which is within Wabanakia

WABANAKIA[K]  = DAWNLAND = large coastal and inland area from GASPE Peninsula in southeastern-most Quebec and CAPE BRETON Island in northeast Nova Scotia in Canada, to CAPE ANN in Gloucester Massachusetts, including —

MAWOOSHEN = “Walk-Together” = MAINE coastal and inland area between ELLSWORTH and BIDDEFORD mouths of UNION and SACO Rivers. =  the personal-alliance territory of super-chief BASHABA aka BESSABES, who died c.1615. It included —

SEBAGO LAKE ( Maine’s second largest) and PRESUMPSCOT RIVER form the large western Maine drainage basin flowing into the western end of CASCO BAY, at FALMOUTH / PORTLAND aka CASCOAK.

SPAP Reports for Considerations of Lakes Region Matters

THE VIEW FROM THE COAST, Part One: MAWOOSHEN’S RIVERS
SPAP Report No I-1

In The Length and Breadth of Maine, Stanley B. Attwood lists fourteen “drainage districts” for the state

THE VIEW FROM THE COAST, Part Two: MAPPING MAWOOSHEN
SPAP Report No I-2

“The Countrey of Mawooshen” behind the Maine coast . . .

HINTS OF THE HINTERLAND & THE TRIPLE-WHAMMY, Part One: NATIVE TRADE WARS
SPAP Report No I-3

…even before the Wabanaki peoples were pulled or pushed . . .

HINTS OF THE HINTERLAND & THE TRIPLE-WHAMMY, Part Two: EUROPEAN-DISEASE EPIDEMICS
SPAP Report No I-4

…Native Americans were totally vulnerable….

HINTS OF THE HINTERLAND & THE TRIPLE-WHAMMY, Part Three: EUROPEAN USURPATION
SPAP Report No I-5

…the ultimate insult…added to the injuries….

SUMMER’S COME – DRESS ACCORDINGLY
SPAP Report No. MSM-F.2

Jantzen’s Diving Girl logo shown left courtesy of Jantzen Inc. This is their first Diving Girl created in 1920.

DOWN BY THE OLD MILL STREAM
SPAP Report No. W-1

In 1869, the results of a state-wide survey ordered by Maine’s Governor Joshua Chamberlain (of epic Civil War fame) were published at Augusta . . .

PROPER NAMES: NOT SOKOKI(S); NOT ROCKAMEECOOK(S)
SPAP REPORT NO. I-6

This is about accuracy of group-identifications, not about political correctness.
Some Native Americans might scoff at any Euramerican attempts to identify them . . .

Ox On: FROM TREES TO MASTS, by Land & Water
SPAP Report No. W-2

Before the masts could hold the sails, the oxen had to haul the trees—and no easy task it was to do so.

PANTHER POND PREHISTORY
SPAP Report No.MSM-F.3

…mostly dated well before Pharaoh Cheops’ Great Pyramid of Egypt…

PANTHER RUN IRON TOMAHAWK (in Dolley Collection)
SPAP Report No.MSM-F.4

The only Historic Period item in the Mira L Dolley Collection, given to MSM in 1981.

GETTING THE POINT & PASSING IT ON – A PAEAN TO PANTHER POND
SPAP Report No.W-3

Dreams? No – some of the reality of Camp!