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Colin Woodard

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A Passamaquoddy elder rests his hands on an oar while working near Long Lake in Indian Township this spring. The people on the tribe’s two eastern Maine reservations have spent decades fighting for their rights while struggling to preserve their collective identity.
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Maine Paper Completes 29-Part Series on Passamaquoddy Tribe

By Colin Woodard
Traditions and trials have been a part of Indian life in Maine for as long as members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, like this elder at Indian Township, can remember. Their ancestors found sustenance in this corner of the world for at least 13,000 years, adapting as eastern Maine turned from tundra to forest. They hunted and fished on land that shaped their lives, right up until outsiders came and took much of it away.
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Unsettled: Triumph and Tragedy in Maine’s Indian Country

By Colin Woodard