Penobscot
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Penobscots,
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Penobscot
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a river flowing S from N Maine into Penobscot Bay. 350 miles (565 km) long.
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a member of a North American Indian people of the Penobscot River valley.
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the Eastern Algonquian language of the Penobscot, a dialect of Abenaki.
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The manager, Kevin Howell, 51, of Carmel, was with his son when they both fell through the ice while crossing Etna Pond, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
The settlement for the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Maliseet, along with a 1991 agreement for the Mi’kmaq, stipulates they’re bound by state law and treated like municipalities in many cases.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
The Penobscot River once supported runs of salmon in the tens of thousands, in the era before intense damming of rivers, said Dan McCaw, fisheries program manager for the Penobscot Nation.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
The count of salmon at the Milford Dam in the Penobscot River has been over 1,000 in four of the last five years, Maine data show.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
“What are you talking about? That’s crazy! Make your parents send you to Penobscot School with me. Or I’ll make my parents send me wherever you go. Never see each other again...that’s not possible!”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Penobscots, whose reservation is on an island in the river, sued in 2012 after then-Attorney General William Schneider issued an opinion that the tribe’s territory was limited to islands.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
The declaration is familiar to many Penobscots because a copy of the document was displayed at the tribal offices at Indian Island, Maine.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
The land transferred from Elliotsville Foundation is located to the west of the town of Brownsville in Piscataquis County, in between two parcels of land already owned by Penobscots.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
Among the first Indian entrepreneurs to tap the lode were Maine's Penobscots, in 1976.
From Time Magazine Archive
We learned afterward that we had pitched our tent on the very spot which a few summers before had been occupied by a party of Penobscots.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
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