Joseph Nicolar

Joseph Nicolar (1827???94) was an elder and political leader of the Penobscot Nation of Maine. He served six terms as the tribe??'s elected representative to the Maine State Legislature. Annette Kolodny is the College of Humanities Professor of American Literature and Culture at The University of Arizona. She is the author of Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century, also published by Duke University Press; The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of...See more

Joseph Nicolar (1827???94) was an elder and political leader of the Penobscot Nation of Maine. He served six terms as the tribe??'s elected representative to the Maine State Legislature. Annette Kolodny is the College of Humanities Professor of American Literature and Culture at The University of Arizona. She is the author of Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century, also published by Duke University Press; The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630???1860; and The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. See less