Penobscot

The Penobscot were a Wabanaki people whose homeland lay along the Penobscot River in what is now Maine. In the sixteenth century they traded furs with Europeans for goods including metal tools and weapons.

Allied with New France, the Penobscot fought New England colonists in Dummer's War of 1722–1725. They again sided with France during the Seven Years' War; after the French defeat at Quebec in 1759 they lost their principal European ally, while settlers continued to encroach on their lands.