Holt McDougal United States History: Civil War to the Present © 2010 New York: Student Edition Civil War to the Present 2010

When I began in the summer of 1882 to collect among the Passamaquoddy Indians at Campobello New Brunswick their traditions and folk-lore I expected to find very little indeed. These Indians few in number surrounded by white people and thoroughly converted to Roman Catholicism promised but scanty remains of heathenism.