Passamaquoddy
Speech parts
1. Passamaquoddy - Noun
2. Passamaquoddy - Proper noun
Meaning
Passamaquoddy (plural Passamaquoddies or Passamaquoddy)
A member of an Algonquian people who reside in Maine (US) and New Brunswick (Canada).
Passamaquoddy
The Algonquian language of these people, a dialect of Malecite-Passamaquoddy, still spoken in Maine and New Brunswick.
Examples
As a member of the school board, Neptune hopes to increase student and teacher access to Passamaquoddy culture and ceremonial teachings, as well as work toward language revitalization.
But the climate was harsher in eastern Maine, the soils ruined by the ice sheets, so the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Maliseet sustained themselves by hunting and fishing.
JTA — Maine’s governor posthumously pardoned Donald Gellers, an attorney whose legal victories exposed the state’s abuses of the Passamaquoddy tribe and who state authorities framed as part of a conspiracy.
Those were spearheaded, however, by a former intern — Gellers had left the state in 1971 after three years of fighting a marijuana possession charge that state authorities had trumped up because of his advocacy for the Passamaquoddy.
With funding from the National Science Foundation, the community and Speaking Place made more than 100 videos in Passamaquoddy and built the first online language portal to link a dictionary with subtitled videos.