SERIES
Interview with George Stevens
Identifier
NA 3630 (local)
Date
2009 (Date created)
Summary
George Stevens interviewed by David Slagger, December 14, 2009, concerning the 1980 Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act. Stevens talks about placement camps; the governor council; Governor Reed; Jimmy Mitchell; Lawrence LeKoot; the “gravel pit”; Don Gellers; Tom Tureen; Ollie Holmes; arrests; Passamaquoddy protests; Judge Dudley; federal recognition; encroachment of 1973-1974; riot at Grand Lake Road toll; Governor Longley; milk delivery ending; Plaisteds Camps; Delia Mitchell; Louise Sockabasin; Morris Brooks; country singer Dick Curless; Micmac (Mi’kmaq); Maliseet; tribal intermarrying; learning English; importance of historical record; Harold Louis; Anna Horne; Phyllis Stevens; George Sockabasin; move to Pleasant Point; housing, employment, education; chopping wood vs. oil. Transcript: 18 pp. Recording: CD2078 37 min
Supplemental Materials: Paper, Interviewing Participants in the 1980 Indian Land Claims Settlement Act, by David Slagger, 5 pp; ANT 490 Special Projects, Interview Questions, by David Slagger, 2 pp; Newspaper clippings on President Carter signing Claims Act, Bangor Daily News; Publication, Federal and State Services and the Maine Indian, Dec. 1974, 104 pp.
Language
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Other Subject Headings
1980 Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act. (Local)
