Chief joseph orono biography of rory

Background

By the time Orono was born, the Penobscot people had been in close contact with French Catholic missionaries and traders for over a generation, and Orono was himself of mixed ancestry, probably the grandson of Jean-Vincent d"Abbadie de Saint-Castin, The 3rd Baron Castin, who had settled at the mouth of the Penobscot River (the site of the present town of Castine, Maine) in the 1660s.

Career

The town of Orono, Maine, which contains the University of Maine, is named for him. In the 1750s the English from nearby Massachusetts defeated the French in Acadia, which included the ancestral lands of the Penobscot.

English settlers began to populate the Penobscot River valley from the 1770s, putting pressure on the tribe.

Orono chose to accommodate the more numerous and better-armed white settlers as, in the course of his life-tim