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ALIEN ABDUCTIONS: HOW THE ABENAKI DISCOVERED ENGLAND In 1605, Captain George Waymouth sailed to the coast of Maine on a mission to kidnap Natives for their political and geographic intelligence. The Abenaki became embroiled in Great Power intrigues and carried enough insight back home to frustrate the colonizers.
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39 THE MADE-UP MRS. PENOBSCOT Squanto wasn’t Waymouth’s only stowaway. The portrait of an unknown English woman gave rise to a totally fictitious female abductee.
41 ONCE IS ENOUGH Contrary to widespread misinformation, Waymouth’s abductees, the Mawooshin Five, did not include Squanto/Tisquantum of New Plymouth fame. Here is how that bogus story got started.
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THEY ALSO SERVED: AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN IN THE WAR OF 1812 Native participants in the War of 1812 included several Haudenosaunee women, who fought another battle years later to get their pensions.
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46 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS The annual celebration of departed friends and family comes again to the Museum in both New York and Washington, D.C.
48 BEST FACE FORWARD Meryl McMaster: Second Self
51 MARAJOARA MASTERS The skillful ceramics of Marajo Island in the mouth of the Amazon River have helped inspire a new appreciation of the advanced culture of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
52 EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS CALENDAR
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