BDN, Penobscots create keepsake map

Chief Orono was the great-grandson of Chief Madockawando. And he was of both Penobscot and French nobility.

I’ll remember those points with the help of “Naming Places the Penobscot Way,” a four-page insert you will find in the Sept. 23-24 edition of the Bangor Daily News.

This keepsake, printed on heavy paper stock, features a couple of large maps and color photographs. Numerous BDN staff members worked on the project including reporter Aimee Dolloff, and of course it couldn’t have been done without the expertise of the Penobscot Indian Nation.

It’s fascinating to learn about many of these Penobscot words. I had no idea that Kenduskeag meant “place of the water parsnips.”

Topics in this special insert include birch-bark canoes, the legend “Gluskape and the Moose,” preserving the past and the European way.

Narramissic, Alamoosook, Sunkhaze, Nicatou, Piscataquis, First Debsconeag Lake – and what, exactly, is the Moose Liver?

We’ll find out on Saturday.