Kathleen Joan Bragdon papers, 1991

The Passamaquoddy Tribe, having two locations, is represented by the Joint Tribal Council which consists of the individual Tribal Councils of Indian Township, in Princeton, and at the Pleasant Point Reservation (Sipayik) in Perry, Maine. A total of 3,369 tribal members are listed on the tribal census rolls with 1,364 on the Indian Township census and 2,005 listed on Pleasant Point census. The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians are the descendants of Native American peoples who inhabited Maine and western New Brunswick since well before recorded history. Both groups speak closely related Algonquian languages, although anthropologists generally group the Passamaquoddies linguistically with the Maliseets and the Penobscots with the Abenakis. These kinship groups were never organized as tribes during the colonial period, but English officials perceived them as such and identified them by their geographical locations. The “Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes” have therefore continued as entities as jurisdiction over them has passed from Massachusetts to Maine to the federal government. Currently, most Penobscots reside on Indian Island in the Penobscot River, while the Passamaquoddies are divided between two principal locations: Pleasant Point on Passamaquoddy Bay, and Indian Township near the St. Croix River.

(Source: Official website of the Passamaquoddy Tribe @ Indian Township. Date Accessed: 01/31/23)