Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000

This historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area. The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquian- speaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot.

阿卡迪亚国家公园（Acadia National Park）的历史民族志概览时间跨度近500年，覆盖了佩诺布斯科特湾（Penobscot Bay）与古尔德斯伯勒湾（Gouldsboro Bay）之间的广袤沿海地带，有时还会拓展至更广范围。之所以需要如此宽泛的覆盖范围，是为了完整涵盖该公园位于沙漠山岛（Mount Desert Island）的核心区域，以及霍特岛（Isle au Haut）和斯库迪克半岛（Schoodic Peninsula），同时涵盖该区域众多近海海岛的各类土地保有安排（包括地役权（easements））。本研究探讨了该栖息地与瓦班纳基族群（Wabanaki peoples）之间动态演变且持续至今的互动关系——瓦班纳基族群是一群使用阿尔冈昆语族（Algonquian）语言的东北族群或部落民族，如今可分为阿贝纳基人（Abenaki）、马利塞特人（Maliseet）、米克马克人（Mi'kmaq）、帕萨马科迪人（Passamaquoddy）与佩诺布斯科特人（Penobscot）。