Topic: Red Paint People once In Bucksport Maine?

This apparently from the University of Maine I think..
http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/newpage5.htm

Talks of the Red Paint People and the locations they have found artifacts.. very interesting stuff.. I wonder if there are any chances of EVP's to be found there.. really interesting.. indeed. A good read..

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/nevin_site.htm

Link Regarding Nevin as one of the sites.. in Maine

Link Regarding Turner Farm as one of the sites in Maine

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/turner_farm.htm

Apparently at an Emerson site they did find a grave.
A grave that had been stained by red ocher accompanied by 21 gouges and thin blades were found a foot deep at the Emerson site.

Another site:

Although only 39 graves were found at the Hartford cemetery there were most likely more than a hundred originally. The graves found at Hathaway's also contained the characteristic implements such as gouges, long pendants, blades, and plummets found in brilliant red ocher.

About Charles Willoughby doing excavating of the sites a time line and when and where:

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/newpage4.htm

This is interesting:

Early Maine inhabitants fished for swordfish in the deep waters of the coast most likely out of dugout canoes. The vessels must have been strong, to have transported the Red Paint People between Nova Scotia and the New England coast as is evident from the trading of arrowheads and stones such as those discovered in Labrador, and Lake Champlain. In addition to fish, these traders ate berries, acorns, nuts, roots and meat.

Many people believed now that the tribes most likely remained on the coast throughout the year, including the winter season, rather than practicing a seasonal migration inland as previously thought. Winters are milder on the coast of Maine than they are inland, and while forest animals hibernate during the winter months, sea animals are still active so there is always a food supply on the coast. This has supported the theory of year round occupation on the coast.

Time Range of the Red Paint People:

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/newpage3.htm

WOW!
With the advent of new technology the controversy of the Red Paint People faded away. Moorehead was correct that the graves were quite old. They date between 2,000 and 6,000 years old. The closest age estimated for the graves at Nevin was 2660 B.P. give or take 85 years (Byers 1979). This would complement the dating range proposed for the Red Paint people given that they lived during the Late Archaic.
What is BP?
This is in the Time Range section can read too :)
So this was before even the pilgrims and English got here! WOW!

Theory of Origin:
http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/newpage2.htm

Artifacts in Motion is really kewl!
http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/new_page_14.htm

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/newpage1.htm

And the introduction to all this shows the Redness the red ocher they used I guess hence their name the Red Paint People they used it on their weapons and on their graves a sort of trademark.. interesting stuff.
Never thought there was prehistoric life here!

OH and last thing: Where did they go??

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/disapear.htm

And other sites to look at about them!

http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/links.htm

This is really interesting reading. I don't think many people realize how extensive the American Indain population was in the state of Maine. You hear a lot about the major Indian tribes, but not about the smaller, less known tribes. My great grand-mother was a full blooded Croix Indian. The best I can figure out is that the Croix Indians were a band of Indians that lived along the St.Croix river. I think it is believed that they melded into one of the more common Maine groups of indians, but I don't find any documentation to suppport that...........Lisa B.

My grandmother was full blooded Penobscot, grandfather full Irish...... guess that makes me one of the "pink paint people"?? LOL
Maine does have a rich Indian history and I suspect that's behind a lot of the paranormal activities here, they were very spiritual and superstitious.
Dale