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The Penobscot Nation, formerly known as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, is the federally recognized tribe of Penobscot in the United States. [2] They are part of the Wabanaki Confederacy , along with the Abenaki , Passamaquoddy , Wolastoqiyik , and Miꞌkmaq nations, all of whom historically spoke Algonquian languages .
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.
Penobscot County: (Abnaki?) tribal name; "place of descending rocks/ledges" Town of Penobscot; Penobscot River; North Branch Penobscot River; West Branch Penobscot River; East Branch Penobscot River; South Branch Penobscot River; Penobscot Bay; Penobscot Pond; Penobscot Island; Little Penobscot Island; Piscataquis County: (Abnaki) "at the river ...
Disrupting that relationship would present unique challenges for the Wabanaki Nations — the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Mi’kmaq Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe and Penobscot Nation — which ...
Penobscot (1 C, 6 P) R. American Indian reservations in Maine (4 P) W. Wabanaki Confederacy (6 C, 14 P) Wolastoqiyik (2 C, 19 P) ... Category: Native American tribes ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by the Penobscot Indian Nation in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river. It was a bitter defeat for ...
Jul. 18—When Gluskabe, the legendary culture hero of the Penobscot tribe at the center of countless stories handed down through generations, hears that people today are still telling his tale ...
The Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, and Penobscot tribes formed the Wabanaki Confederacy in the seventeenth century. The Confederacy covered roughly most of present-day Maine in the United States, and New Brunswick , mainland Nova Scotia , Cape Breton Island , Prince Edward Island and some of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River in ...