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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 23—Wayne A. Newell, a Passamaquoddy educator, writer and scholar who devoted his life to preserving his tribal language and ...

Dwayne Tomah, the youngest fluent Passamaquoddy speaker, sings a Passamaquoddy song outside of his home in Perry, Maine. Tomah is translating and interpreting songs and stories from wax cylinders ...

Deep in the western Maine woods, where the snowpack is still 4 feet deep, 5 miles of tubing forms a web between the maple trees, waiting for the season’s first major sap run. Marie Harnois, manager of ...

Allen Sockabasin spent decades trying to preserve his native Passamaquoddy language. In the late 1990s, Sockabasin developed a phonetic language system to ease some of the challenges of teaching a new ...

In 1890, anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes lugged an Edison phonograph to Calais, near the Passamaquoddy’s Indian Township and Pleasant Point reservations. Then, he had tribe members speak and sing ...

A Maine Native American tribe will use $500,000 in federal funds for a project to create and implement digital inclusion, distance learning and telehealth and telework programs for the benefit of ...

The Passamaquoddy reservation at Sipayik, or Pleasant Point, is perched just above Passamaquoddy Bay. A new federal program announced Wednesday aims to help tribal communities that are severely ...

Nearly all of Maine’s Pine Island, also known as White’s Island, was repossessed by the Passamaquoddy tribe in March after it came up for sale, effectively ending the 150-year private ownership of the ...