FDI - Pasamaquoddy

The Passamaquoddy were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They lived on Passamaquoddy Bay, the St. Croix River, and about the Schoodic Lakes in southeastern Maine. They have remained essentially in the same location since the European arrival. They, along with the Penobscot, have realized judicial and legislative successes in the twentieth century.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

ME Calais, Innarkuan, Lewis Island, Sebaik

Present Locations

ME Indian Township Reservation, Princeton

Pleasant Point Reservation, Perry

Year	*History*
1497	European fishing boats soon began fishing at Grand Bank off of the coast of Maine soon after the visit of Sebastian Cabot
1524	Giovanni da Verrazano also explored the area
1604	Met by Samuel de Champlain
1617	Pandemic resulting in 75% depopulation
1640	Beginning of Beaver Wars with Iroquois
1727	Dummer's War (1722-27), resulted in Abenaki refugees imerging nto the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy villages
1755	French and Indian War (1755-63)
1763	English claimed all Indian lands by "right of conquest"
1776	Fought on side of Americans in Revolutionary War
1794	Ceded large tracts of land
1798	Along with Penobscot, received three small reservation on recognition for their services
1820	Maine statehood
1823	Passamaquoddy and Penobscot were granted representation in the Maine legislature, but their representatives had no status except in matters concerning Native Americans
1980	Along with Penobscot, won judgment vs. Maine in Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act; received $81million for lands taken unfairly by settlers

Year	Total ME Population	Source
1600	2,000	NAHDB calculation
1700	150	NAHDB calculation
1726	150	Swanton
1800	150	NAHDB calculation
1804	130	Swanton
1825	379	Swanton
1900	400	NAHDB calculation
1910	386	Census
1930	435	Census
1981	691	BIA
1989	1,497	BIA
2000	2,000	NAHDB calculation
2005	1,356	Indian Township Reservation
2005	1,998	Pleasant Point Reservation

Other speakers of the same language:

Maliceet

Passamaquoddy Sites:

Constitution of the Sipayik Members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe http://www.narf.org/nill/Constitutions/passconst/passconsttoc.htm

Indian Township Reservation http://www.maine.gov/local/washington/indian_twp_res/

Malecite-Passamaquoddy Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=MAC

Malecite-Passamaquoddy Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=MAC

Papermaker Gives Island Back to Tribe http://www.penobscotnation.org/articles/papermaker_gives_island_back_to_.htm

Passamaquoddy http://www.native-languages.org/passamaquoddy.htm

Passamaquoddy http://gizmo.sad4.com/~ebartley/NativeAmericans/passamaquoddy.html

Passamaquoddy Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t71

Passamaquoddy Flag http://users.aol.com/donh523/navapage/pass.htm

Passamaquoddy History http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/Passamaquoddy-IndianHistory.htm

Passamaquoddy Indian Fact Sheet http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/passamaquoddy_kids.htm

Passamaquoddy Indian History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/abenaki/passamaquoddyhist.htm

Passamaquoddy Indian Tribe of New Brunswick http://www.aaanativearts.com/article898.html

Passamaquoddy Language http://www.native-languages.org/passamaquoddy.htm

Passamaquoddy Links http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/PASSAMAQUODDYlinks.html

Passamaquoddy Literature http://www.indigenouspeople.net/passquat.htm

Passamaquoddy Origins http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9118/pass.html

Passamaquoddy Tribe http://www.quoddyloop.com/pssmqddy.htm

Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point http://www.wabanaki.com/

Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine http://www.passamaquoddy.com/

Perry and Sipayik: Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation http://www.quoddyloop.com/pe.shtml

Sipayik.com http://www.sipayik.com/

St. Andrew Officials Illegally Seize Passamaquoddy Land http://www.sipayik.com/sacred_site.htm

*Ethnie:*	PASSAMAQUODDY
*Language:*	Malecite-Passamaquoddy
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	1,500 (1998 SIL)