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Definition: Passamaquoddy from Rourke's Native American History & Culture Encyclopedia

refers to the Native American nation that originally lived from Maine to Canada's New Brunswick. They grew corn, beans, and squash, also hunting inland in the winter. In the summer, they moved to the coast and caught seafood, including porpoise. They carved birch bark canoes and fished with spears. They traded goods with neighboring Native Americans, but often fought with members of the Iroquois Nation. Today, most Passamaquoddy live in Maine on two reservations. One band lives in Canada, but does not have a reserve there.

Passamaquoddy

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of an American Indian people living in the Quoddy Loop area of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Brunswick, Canada. They speak an Algonquian language, and are related to the Penobscot , their traditional allies. The Passamaquoddy had a hunter-gatherer economy, and lived in palisaded villages. In the colonial period they traded fur with the French, and joined the Abnaki confederation against the Iroquois and English. Many converted to Catholicism. They now live on reservations on Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine, and number about 3,000 (1990). In 1978 they were awarded US$40.3 million compensation for land lost during white settlement, confirmed under the Maine Indians Claims Settlement Agreement (1980), spurring other groups to sue state governments. The Passamaquoddy of New Brunswick, numbering some 200, are campaigning for the return of lands lost when the US–Canadian border was established in 1842. The Passamaquoddy originally subsisted primarily by hunting moose and caribou, …
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Full text Article PASSAMAQUODDY

From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures Full text Article The Americas
A Native North American nation of coastal Maine and New Brunswick, whose name means ‘pollock-spearing place’. Seasonally mobile within their territory as hunters, gatherers and fishers, they spoke an Algonquian language. The Passamaquoddy were allies of the FRENCH in the 17th century, but were…
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Current Locations: Maine Language Family: Algonquian The Passamaquoddy, closely related to the Maliseet, are indigenous to present-day Maine and New Brunswick. The Passamaquoddy were primarily farmers. They had early and sustained contact with the French, and as a result many are Catholic. When…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of an American Indian people living in the Quoddy Loop area of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Brunswick, Canada. They speak an Algonquian language, and are related to the Penobscot , their traditional allies. The Passamaquoddy had a hunter-gatherer economy, and lived in palisaded villages. In…
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Full text Article Passamaquoddy Bay

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Inlet of the Bay of Fundy , between southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, and southeastern Maine, U.S., at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Deer Island and Campobello Island are in its southern part. It has an immense tidal flow, with about 70 billion cu ft (2 billion cu m) …
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Full text Article Stevens, John W.

From Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century
(b. 1933–) Passamaquoddy tribal leader A Passamaquoddy, John Stevens was born on August 11, 1933, in Washington County, Maine. His father, George Stevens, Sr., was an important tribal leader. John attended the local schools before joining the U.S. Marines in 1951. Serving in Korea, he won a number…
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