Saint John River topographic map

Name: Saint John River topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Saint John River, Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, United States (47.23612 -68.69804 47.24441 -68.65506)

Average elevation: 682 ft

Minimum elevation: 482 ft

Maximum elevation: 1,342 ft

When the Europeans arrived into Wolastokuk, the homeland of the Maliseet Nation and Saint John River basin, they found the locals hunting, gathering, and farming near the banks of the river. European colonists may have used fields and town sites prepared by the natives. Archaeological evidence is that the Maliseet had economic and cultural ties with large portions of North America from their country's homebase within the Wabanaki Confederacy of Dawnland. The Maliseet dealt with freshets by having their village above the floodplain, for example Meductic, while cultivating at a lower elevation where the fields were fertilized by the floodwaters. The Maliseet were highly mobile and the Saint John River was a primary means of transportation.

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