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- Title
'A Scratch with a Bear's Paw': Anglo-Indian Land Deeds in Early Maine.
- Authors
Baker, Emerson W.
- Abstract
Seventeenth-century deeds from Maine serve as a case study for the ethnohistorical potential of deed research. These transactions provide insights into native land tenure and tribal boundaries, two aspects of Maine Indians rarely noted by seventeenth-century observers. Deeds also shed light on Anglo-Indian relations. Maine Indians were not cheated of their lands in a fraudulent "deed game." Instead, land sales were predominantly legitimate transactions between parties who generally understood the terms and implications of the sale.
- Subjects
MAINE; UNITED States; DEEDS (Law); LAND tenure; ETHNOHISTORY
- Publication
Ethnohistory, 1989, Vol 36, Issue 3, p235
- ISSN
0014-1801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/482673