Passamaquoddy
/ˌpasəməˈkwɒdi
/noun (plural same or Passamaquoddies)
1A member of an American Indian people inhabiting parts of SE Maine and, formerly, SW New Brunswick.But both the Atlantic Policy Congress and Akagi say the St. Croix Scoodic band of the Passamaquoddy in Canada never ceded its traditional territory throughout 200 years of continuous encroachment by the province and town....
- He was an ethnologist and he recorded all of these songs and tales of the Passamaquoddy Indians.
- Representatives of Maine's Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians, who assisted the Maliseets in their negotiations with the state, attended the ceremony.
2 [mass noun] The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, now with few speakers.
adjective
Relating to the Passamaquoddy or their language.The issue of whether non-status persons of Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy ancestry are entitled to treaty rights affirmed by Marshall must be resolved;...
- Akagi, whose mother was ‘half Native ‘and his father Japanese, said that although there supposedly are no Passamaquoddy people in St. Andrews, the town nonetheless did not charge his family property tax when his mother was alive.’
- Later, at a senior's hall in nearby Mace's Bay, we discussed CBM efforts in local scallop management and met with Hugh Akagi, Chief of the Passamaquoddy First Nation.
Origin
From a Micmac name for Passamaquoddy Bay, literally 'place where pollack are plentiful'.