Passamaquoddy

The Passamaquoddy were an Algonquian-speaking people of Passamaquoddy Bay and the St. Croix River, in present-day Maine and New Brunswick. They hunted inland in winter and gathered on the coast and islands in summer to harvest fish and shellfish.

In 1604 Samuel de Champlain established a French post on St. Croix Island in Passamaquoddy territory. The Passamaquoddy became part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, and from the nineteenth century European settlers repeatedly displaced them from their lands.