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===Beginnings=== The [[Penobscot people]] have inhabited the area around present-day Bangor for at least 11,000 years<ref>''The Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritimes''. American Friends Service Committee, 1989.</ref> and still occupy tribal land on the nearby [[Penobscot Indian Island Reservation]]. The Penobscot traditionally call the Bangor area ''kkάtaskkik'', meaning "at/on the [[Sium suave|water parsnip]] ground," which was rendered in English as Kenduskeag.<ref>{{cite web |title=kkάtaskki |url=https://penobscot-dictionary.appspot.com/entry/6123033420890112/ |website=Penobscot Dictionary |publisher=Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation Department}}</ref> They practised some agriculture, but less than peoples in southern New England where the climate is milder,<ref>James Francis. "Burnt Harvest: Penobscot People and Fire", ''Maine History'' 44, 1 (2008) 4-18.</ref> and subsisted on what they could hunt and gather.<ref>''Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritimes''</ref> Contact with Europeans was not uncommon during the 1500s because the [[fur trade]] was lucrative and the Penobscot were willing to trade pelts for European goods. The first European known to have explored the area in 1524 was [[Estêvão Gomes]], a Portuguese navigator who sailed in the service of Spain in the 1520s. The Spaniards, led by Gómez, were the first Europeans to make landfall in what is now Maine, followed by the Frenchman [[Samuel de Champlain]] in 1605.<ref>{{cite book|title=Champlain's Dream|first=David Hackett|last=Fischer|pages=180–181|year=2009|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-9333-1}}</ref> The [[Jesuit]]s established a mission on [[Penobscot Bay]] in 1609, which was then part of the French colony of [[Acadia]], and the valley remained contested between France and [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] into the 1750s, making it one of the last regions to become part of [[New England]]. In 1769, Jacob Buswell founded a settlement at the site. By 1772, there were 12 families, along with a [[sawmill]], store, and school. By 1787, the population was 567. It was known as Sunbury or Kenduskeag Plantation until incorporation as Bangor in 1791.<ref>{{cite web |title=The New International Encyclopædia 1st ed. v. 02.djvu/535 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_1st_ed._v._02.djvu/535 |website=Wikisource |access-date=July 2, 2019}}</ref>
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