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Donna M. Loring
Available: April 2008
Paperback, $20
ISBN 978-0-88448-302-1
6 x 9, 224 pages, photographs
MAINE BOOKS:
America’s Kitchens —NewA Coastal Companion: A Gulf of Maine Almanac, from Canada to Cape Cod —New
In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine —New
North by Northeast: Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk, and Tuscarora Traditional Arts —New
Partners in Wilderness: Buzz Caverly and Baxter State Park —New
Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering—New
Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family —New
Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America's Oldest Industry —New
A1 Diner
Antiqueman's Diary
The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
Catboat Era, The
Changing Maine
Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay
Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine
Day's Work, A (Vol. I)
Day's Work, A (Vol. II)
Doryman's Day, A
Down on the Island, Up on the Main
Downeast: A Maritime History of Maine
Eminent Mainers
Fly Rod Crosby
Interrupted Forest, The
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. I
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. II
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. IV
Journalism Matters
Just One More Thing, Doc
Letters from Sea
Life Between the Tides
Little Pine to King Spruce
Maine Hamlet, A
Maine Made Guns & Their Makers
Maine's Visible Black History
Not Your Average Bear
Old Town Canoe, The
On Wilderness
One Man's Meat
Place on Water, A
Rangeley and Its Region, The
Red right Returning
Rediscovering S. P. Rolt Triscott
Same Great Struggle, The
Sea Struck
Shipyard in Maine, A
Snow Squall
That Yankee Cat
Turnaround
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past
Upriver Passamaquoddy, An
Voyage of Archangell, The
Voyage of Detroit, The
Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
While You're Here, Doc
Wood and Canvas Canoe, The
Worthy of the Sea: K. Aage Nielsen and His Legacy of Yacht Design
- "When I finished this book I remembered a Rwandan woman psychologist whose speech closed a Maine conference about survivors. She introduced a Rwandan dance group of young people and the whole, very serious audience, including survivors, got up to dance, too. The speaker said at the end of this dance, ‘People ask, why dance, when there is such a serious topic? I say, what better than for the people who expected to see you disappear, see you not only survive, but dance?’ This book is Representative Loring dancing, in the cool light of dawn, but on fire." —Victoria Mares-Hershey, writer, playwright
- "Donna Loring has committed a brave and generous act in sharing her thoughts and observations as the representative of the Penobscot Indian Nation in the Maine legislature. Written with unflinching honesty, Loring’s diary not only throws light on the legislative process, but also holds up a mirror to the dominant society’s entrenched thought patterns that have allowed the members of Maine tribal nations to remain ‘invisible in plain sight.’ Loring’s belief that understanding and communication through education will foster new harmonious relationships is the hope of indigenous peoples everywhere. In the Shadow of the Eagle places Maine's Indian tribes clearly within the global struggle of all indigenous peoples for their inherent rights of sovereignty, self-determination, human rights, and human dignity. It should be required reading for all legislators and throughout the state's school system." —Gale Courey Toensing, reporter, Indian Country Today
- "Loring's diary provides a fascinating insider's look at Maine's legislative processóin particular at the unique role tribal representativs have had in the legislature since the state's founding in 1820. Written with remarkable candor, grace, grit, and wit, it conveys her conviction that mutual education is the only acceptable means to establishing both the common good and justice for her people." —Bunny McBride, author of Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris
Donna Loring grew up on Indian Island and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a BA in Political Science. Donna is also a Vietnam veteran who served in the communications center at Long Binh Army Base located approximately thirty miles northeast of Saigon. It was her job to process all the casualty reports for Southeast Asia. She was stationed in Vietnam from November of 1967 to November of 1968 and served during the TET Offensive. Her professional background is in law enforcement and she is a graduate of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. She was the first woman police academy graduate to become police chief in the state of Maine and served as the police chief for the Penobscot Nation from 1984–90. In 1992 she became the first woman director of security at Bowdoin College, a position she held until March of 1997. Donna was appointed aide de camp to then-governor Angus King on March 17, 1999, and was commissioned with the rank of colonel by the governor. She was advisor to former Governor King on women veterans' affairs. On November 4, 1999, Donna received the Mary Ann Hartman Award from the University of Maine's Women in Curriculum and Women's Studies Program. The award recognizes outstanding Maine women for their accomplishments in the arts, politics, business, education, and community service. She has served in the Maine State Legislature as the tribal representative of the Penobscot Nation from 1998–2004, and 2005 to the present.
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