Newell Lewey, a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe, is photographed holding soil from the ground in the tribe's 167-acre garden in Perry. The garden is part of a small group's effort to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
Newell Lewey, a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe, is photographed in the tribe's 167-acre garden in Perry. The garden is part of a small group's effort to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
The top of a corn stalk is photographed in the Passamaquoddy tribe's 167-acre garden in Perry. The garden is part of a small group's effort to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
Plansowes Dana a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe holds a bunch of carrots at her personal garden on the Pleasant Point reservation Friday. Dana is part of a small group's effort to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community. (Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
Plansowes Dana a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe, carries grain into the pen in her back yard that holds chickens and turkeys. Dana is part of a small group's effort to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community. (Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
Plansowes Dana a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe holds a bunch of carrots at her personal garden on the Pleasant Point reservation. Dana is part of a small group's effort to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
Chief Frederick Moore III of the Pleasant Point reservation is seen on his fishing boat in Eastport. Moore is part of the growing food sovereignty movement in the tribe. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
Chief Frederick Moore III of the Pleasant Point reservation steps off his fishing boat in Eastport. Moore is part of the growing food sovereignty movement in the tribe. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
Plansowes Dana a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe, holds a bunch of aboriginal seeds given to the tribe by a representative of the Abenaki tribe of Vermont. The seeds have never been cross-pollinated with other types of seeds. Dana is part of a small group's effort to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community. (Photo by Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer)
Allen Tomah, at right, a Passamaquoddy tribal elder, eats the fish dinner provided for the tribal elders the first Friday of every month at the Housing Authority on the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation Friday. A small group of the tribe is trying to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community that would eventually feed meals like this one. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
A tribal member serves food during the fish dinner provided for the Passamaquoddy tribal elders during the first Friday of every month at the Housing Authority on the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation Friday. A small group of the tribe is trying to maintain a Food Sovereignty Program in the community that would eventually feed meals like this one. (Photo by Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer)
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