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Passamaquoddy|ˌpæsəməˈkwɒdɪ|
Also 8 Passamaquoda, Pesmaquady.
[Micmac, = ‘place where pollack are plentiful’, with reference to Passamaquoddy Bay.]
(A member of) a North American Indian people nearly identical in language and culture to the Maliseet and inhabiting parts of south-east Maine and (formerly) south-west New Brunswick; the Algonquian language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1726J. Gyles in Maine Hist. Soc. Coll. (1853) III. 357 Memorandom of ye No of Indians in each tribe from 16 years of age... Pesmaquady Indians 30. 1759T. Pownall in Ibid. (1857) V. 371 Zacharie was asked what Tribe he was of, ansd Passamaquoda. 1842Wasp (Nauvoo, Illinois) 3 Sept. 3/1 Our Passamaquoddy Indians are divided into two political parties, between which a good deal of acrimonious feeling exists. 1857Porter's Spirit of Times 11 July 292/2 Much interest was felt in the birch canoe race, between some Indians of the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Micmac tribes. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 207/2 Passamaquoddy... A small tribe belonging to the Abnaki confederacy... They formerly occupied all the region about Passamaquoddy bay and on St Croix r and Schoodic lake, on the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. 191228th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1906–7 259 The consonantic clusters of Passamaquoddy. Ibid. 285 The Passamaquoddy independent mode. 1917Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics I. 58/1 The Passamaquoddies live about four hundred strong at Pleasant Point... It is safe to estimate that about a thousand persons still speak Passamaquoddy. Ibid. 58/2, I intend to publish shortly a complete chrestomathy of Passamaquoddy tales. 1935Explorations & Field Work Smithsonian Inst. 1934 85 Probably all the Passamaquoddy have white blood in varying degrees. Ibid. 88 Passamaquoddy (as is the case with other Eastern Algonquian languages) has deviated from the normal type. Ibid. (caption) Alexander Spain, a Passamaquoddy. 1957Encycl. Brit. I. 49/2 They [sc. the Abnaki] included the..Passamaquoddy. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 786/1 In 1969 there were two Passamaquoddy reservations in Maine. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index World's Lang. 17 Passamaquoddy... D[ialect] also Malecite... 9,000–10,000 [speakers]. New Brunswick, Maine, and adjacent Quebec. 1978Times 11 Jan. 7/3 In Maine, the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians are claiming..nearly two thirds of the entire state. |