Passamaquoddy

American  

[pas-uh-muh-kwod-ee] / ˌpæs ə məˈkwɒd i /

noun

• Passamaquoddies,
  plural
• Passamaquoddy
  plural

1. a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.

2. the Eastern Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, mutually intelligible with Malecite.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• Passamaquoddies
  plural
• Passamaquoddy
  plural

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The Passamaquoddy thought water quality and environmental protection should be top priority; the state emphasized forecasting models and monitoring.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023

In recent years, lawmakers have expanded tribal policing authority, returned some land and allowed the Passamaquoddy Tribe to work with the federal government to clean up water, among other things.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

Yet in our recent study, we found the Wabanaki Nations in Maine – Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot – and their 9,546 citizens have been left out of this progress.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023

In the local artist’s multimedia exhibition, drawings, photographs, sculptures and video ponder the effects of mineral extraction on Passamaquoddy tribal land in Maine.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2022

It is thought that the oldest surviving field recordings are those made in 1889 among the Passamaquoddy Indians in Maine, by American anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

With an assist from Tribal Assets, the Passamaquoddies paid $16 million for New England's largest cement factory, the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston, Me.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Maine the Penobscots and Passamaquoddies, who once demanded 12 million acres, or two-thirds of the state, have come down to 300,000 acres, and may well settle for less.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Passamaquoddies, no doubt, in old times, had many dances, sacred and secular.

From Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by Jesse Walter Fewkes

This famous m'teoulin was long a popular governor of the Passamaquoddies.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

After a fortnight’s deliberation the treaty was signed, on the 23rd February, by Ballomy Glode, chief of the St. John Indians, and Michel Neptune, chief of the Passamaquoddies.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond