John Bear Mitchell Presentation Advanced in SeacoastOnline

SeacoastOnline previewed a Nov. 3 presentation at the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, N.H. by John Bear Mitchell, associate director of the University of Maine’s Wabanaki Center. Mitchell, who is also a Wabanaki studies lecturer at UMaine, will present a program on Wabanaki culture and storytelling traditions as part of the museum’s speaker series commemorating the 300th anniversary of the 1713 Treaty of Portsmouth between the English and Native Americans of the Maine and New Hampshire coast. Mitchell is a member of the Penobscot Nation on Indian Island.