According to a local media report, police said Brackett and 38-year-old Donnell J. Dana were arrested around 4:45 p.m. Friday during a traffic stop. Both are facing murder charges, according to the ...

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 ...

In late September, I travelled to Indian Township, Maine, the largest of three Passamaquoddy reservations, for the tribe’s annual ceremonial-days festival. That far northeast, the state is all ...

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As a young boy, Donald Soctomah heard the Passamaquoddy language spoken all around him. At home, his grandmother, mother and older sisters were fluent. Soctomah was born in 1955, and when he was four ...

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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 ...

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Dec. 23—Wayne A. Newell, a Passamaquoddy educator, writer and scholar who devoted his life to preserving his tribal language and cultural traditions, died Thursday at age 79. The tribal elder was ...

“Jeremy Frey: Woven,” at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT through September 7, 2025, marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition of his revolutionary baskets. Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born ...

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Dwayne Tomah sits at his kitchen table in Perry, Maine, and pulls up an audio file on his computer. When he hits play, the speakers emit a cracked, slightly garbled recording. Through the white noise, ...