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and its tributaries. Traditionally, they had seasonal patterns of settlement. In the winter, they dispersed and hunted inland. In the summer, they gathered more closely together on the coast and islands, and primarily harvested seafood, including marine mammals, mollusks, crustaceans, and
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in 2008. Another resource for the language is the online Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal, which includes many videos, subtitled in English and Passamaquoddy, of native speakers conversing in the language. Most of the people speak English as their first language.
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While the Passamaquoddy population in Canada is much smaller than that in Maine, it has a formal structure and a chief, Hugh Akagi. Most of its people speak French and English. It is not recognized by the Canadian government as constituting a
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Settlers of European descent repeatedly forced the Passamaquoddy off their original lands from the 1800s. After the United States achieved independence from Great Britain, the tribe was eventually officially limited to the current
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in five Maine counties. These lands total almost four times the size of the reservations proper. They are located in northern and western
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in eastern Washington County, which has a land area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km) and a population of 749, per the 2010 census.
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The total Passamaquoddy population is around 3,576 people. About 500 people, most if not all over the age of 50, speak the
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is shared by both New Brunswick and Maine; its name was derived by the English settlers from the Passamaquoddy people.
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The START energy planning workshop held at the Passamaquoddy Tribes of Indian Township and Pleasant Point in Maine
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supported with visual imagery, such as birchbark etching and petrographs prior to European contact. Among the
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are plentiful", reflecting the importance of this fish in their culture. Their method of
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Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journey through Public Memory
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in a region called Dawnland. They are one of the constituent nations of the
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Maps showing the approximate locations of areas occupied by members of the
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people who live in northeastern North America. Their traditional homeland,
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Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal (includes dictionary and videos)
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American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America
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The name "Passamaquoddy" is an anglicization of the Passamaquoddy word
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resident population of 676 persons. They also control the small
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Indian Township Reservation and Passamaquoddy Trust Land, Maine
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literally means "pollock-spearer" or "those of the place where
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Western Abenaki (Arsigantegok, Missisquoi, Cowasuck, Sokoki,
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Passamaquoddy Tribal Government Web Site (Indian Township)
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Passamaquoddy Tribal Government Web Site (Pleasant Point)
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Passanaquoddy Tribe reacquires stolen land on Pine Island
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Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton
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A mannequin representing a 16th-century Passamaquoddy man
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Erickson, Vincent O. 1978. "Maliseet-Passamaquoddy". In
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was spear-fishing, rather than angling or using nets.
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a Passamaquoddy ancestral capital and burial ground.
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Location of Passamaquoddy off-reservation trust lands
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Index

Passamaquoddy people
Passamaquoddy (disambiguation)

Sipayik
Motahkomikuk
Qonasqamkuk
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
English
Wabanaki mythology
Catholicism
Abenaki
Maliseet
Mi'kmaq
Penobscot
Peskotomuhkatiyik
Peskotomuhkatuwey
Peskotomuhkatihkuk
Wabanaki
Passamaquoddy
Native American
First Nations
New Brunswick
Maine
Wabanaki Confederacy
federally-recognized tribe
prenoun
Algonquian languages
endonym
pollock
fishing

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