1978 to 1993 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A boarded-up building belies the difficult life on Peter Dana Point in Indian Township. Governing without a tribal constitution in the years following the Indian land claims settlement of 1980 put the Passamaquoddy in a risky spot, even with […]

1986 to 1993 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer St. Ann Church, in the village of Peter Dana Point in Indian Township, stands under a gray sky recently. Repeated attempts to enact a tribal constitution – a document that would have provided a legal foundation for the Passamaquoddy […]

September 1986 to June 1987 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The Pleasant Point reservation is captured in the aperture of a pinhole camera. A legal challenge resulted after an unusual Passamaquoddy caucus initiative in 1986 left many members of the tribe stripped of their right to vote […]

1983 to 1986 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy elder and a member of the joint tribal council sifts through stacks of petitions at Pleasant Point. in an unexpected development, an exception clause in the land claims settlement led to some uncertainty about which laws should […]

1983 to 1990 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The Passamaquoddy Wild Blueberry Co. in Columbia Falls on Route 1 in Down East Maine was among the investments made by tribe in the years after the land claims settlement of 1980. Attorney Tom Tureen’s firms brokered a series […]

1980 to 1982 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer This Indian heirloom, depicting a man at “the end of the trail,” was given to Victoria Boston, a Passamaquoddy, after her father died in 2006. The populations on the tribe’s two reservations grew sharply in the wake of the […]

1976 to 1980 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy Indian pauses in contemplation at the edge of Long Lake on Peter Dana Point in Indian Township recently. Stakes were high for Maine’s tribes and the state alike in the developments that preceded the historic Indian land […]

1968 to 1976 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer Just off Route 1 in Indian Township, this gravel pile, now a grass-covered mound, is where a group of Passamaquoddy sat in protest in 1964 to stop a white man from building a road on reservation land. The arrests […]

February 1971 to May 1976 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer An “open” flag flies above a storefront in Eastport, not far from where the Passamaquoddy’s attorney Don Gellers had his office in the early 1960s, before his former legal intern, Tom Tureen, took over as the tribe’s […]