One of the main purposes of this article is to call attention to the various ways of telling about the past. There are indeed many different windows to look backward from, each with its own lens-focus. In Notes 3, 4, 6 & 7...
...I have given working-definitions of several of these
perspectives, using two general categories: History and Folklore.
We tend to associate Factuality (Accuracy?) with History; Creativity
(Inaccuracy?) with Folklore. Yet these associations can be quite misleading:
Propaganda is deliberately created history; Oral Traditions can be more accurate
than miswritten documentation. Nonetheless these associations should serve
as rules-of-thumb to keep us wary. [Click for note 
7]
That part of the Anglo-Wabanaki Frontier which I call Sebagoland
certainly has been disproportionately short on encounter Facts and long on
Fantasy / Fancy - i.e., less Substance and more Shadow has been depicted about
it. This beautiful realm of woods & lakes obviously was a place worth
fighting for heroically - the Wabanakis to keep it, the Anglos to seize it.
Little wonder then that Creativity has been the Euramericans' oft-chosen
means of expressing "what must have been happening" in Sebagoland
when Our Sacred Ancestors encountered The Native Savages (Noble or
Bloody) in that Wilderness. [click for note
8] Yet too often the price of Creativity is paid for at the expense
of Accuracy, and the public must acknowledge that cost, if it chooses Legend
over History, and turns Sebagoland into Shadowland thereby.
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