Tag Archives: St. Croix Island

First Nations exhibit at the Harvard Peabody Museum

Interviews with modern Passamaquoddy

Original people of this land – the Native Americans. Check out a virtual exhibit at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, about the history of Native Americans and the Plymouth, settlers (link below). This particular exhibit is focused on the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), in Plymouth, MA, but the history mirrors French and Native American colonial […]

Franco-American population diversity

book jacket The People of New France

A concluding chapter in a book by Allan Greer titled, “The People of New France“, discussed the diversity of the French-Canadians. I’ve written about this subject in the past. Therefore, I appreciated reading Greer’s point of view. Although French-Canadians, and the Franco-Americans, who descended from this special population of people, may appear to have similar […]