Penobscot County ME Archives Biographies.....The Indian Chief, Orono  unknown - unknown
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Author: Spragues Journal of Maine History

Orono the Indian Chief Vol 2 page 218 Spragues Journal of Maine History

Orono, the town that is now the "Mecca" for students,
was hundreds of years ago the home of two nations of
Indiansthe Abnakis or Abenaques.  In the latter
nation, the strongest tribe was the Tarratines, who
generally in a battle were the victors.  Their largest
villages were at Oldtown and at the banks of the
Stillwater in Orono.  "The settlement of the last
named place by the English received its name in honor
of Joseph Orono, an Indian chief. The Tarratines
rarely made war upon the whites except under great
provocation.  For more than a hundred years after the
settlement of Maine, no white person was killed by the
Penobscot tribe but in self defence." On the contrary,
there are many beautiful memories of Indian gratitude
and kindness.  Joseph Orono was wise and just and
asked that some of the grievances under which his
people labored should be removed by the whites.

Chief Orono died more than century ago, keenly
intellectual in his old age.  The remnant of the tribe
lives at Indian Island, Oldtown.

Contributed by Androscoggin Historical Society


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