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Joseph Orono (25 November 1688 — 5 February 1801) [1] was a Penobscot Indian chief or sachem who lived on the Penobscot River in present-day Maine.The town of Orono, Maine, which contains the University of Maine, is named for him.
The Penobscot Nation is headquartered in Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Maine. The tribal chief is Kirk Francis. [2] The vice-chief is Bill Thompson. The Penobscot are invited to send a nonvoting representative to the Maine House of Representatives. In 2005, Penobscot Nation began a relationship with Venezuela's government led by Hugo ...
Dec. 6—As Orono moves ahead with plans to erect new welcome signs that feature the Penobscot Nation chief for whom the town was named, there's no definitive history detailing Joseph Orono's ...
Penobscot Indian Island Reservation (Abenaki: Álənαpe Mə́nəhan) is an Indian reservation for the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, a federally recognized tribe of the Penobscot [2] in Penobscot County, Maine, United States, near Old Town. The population was 758 at the 2020 census.
Bryant was elected to the Penobscot Nation Tribal Council in 2016 for a four-year term. In September 2017, Chief Kirk Francis appointed her as the first Tribal Ambassador of the Penobscot Nation. She is a regular fixture at the Maine State House in Augusta where she can be found testifying on behalf of her community and helping to create policy.
The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner"; also: Wabanakia, "Dawnland" [1]) is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.
A roadside historical marker near Clear Lake describes the mass killing of Indigenous people, mostly women and children, by U.S. soldiers in 1850.
She graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy and, in 1984, became the police chief for the Penobscot nation, making her the Academy's first female graduate to become a police chief. From 1992 to 1997, Loring was the first female director of security at Bowdoin College . [ 3 ]