Penobscots
- plural of Penobscot.
Example Sentences
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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
His wife was what the early chroniclers would call an Indian princess; for she was the daughter of Madockawando, chief of the Penobscots.
From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis
