The Passamaquoddy: A People Reborn

[CrazyNative4]

cool

[DUBBADUNK1]

Very well done , you have a future in documentaries.  professional.

[ckdafinest]

tango down :*(

[browneyedgirl65]

Any chance of a transcript for this? The auto captioning is a little hard to follow. Looks interesting though!

[Rebeccahhack19]

Asolutly Beautiful.. I am so glad to find this we should not forget the trials of our elders..

[MrPenobe]

Well done on the Video it's good to see people actually take and interest in this and do so without so much Ignorance. I'm a Penobscot Native and grew up in Oldtown on Indian Island.. and we still hold a lot of our Traditions to this day, I'm 23, when i was growing up there was a lot of culture we would Drum, Dance, Sing, Among many other things.. and hold yearly gathering In Pleasant point or Indian Island. in one of them Clips My Grandmothers house was actually driven past. Well done.

[gizzygirl2008]

Near the end when Dolly Apt said how Passamaquoddy Indians will blend in with everyone else until someone says that there are no more Passamaquoddy left, it made me think. I'm only 15, I am 1/8 Passamaquoddy Indian & I don't know much about my ancestors. This video & what Dolly said made me want to find who I am related too. & there will always be Passamaquoddy Indians. I know that when I have kids, I'm going to teach them all about their Indian side, somethings that I never got. Great video! :)

[pdana81]

@gizzygirl2008 Dolly is my mother, she's very smart and fluent in the language :)

[MrPenobe]

@gizzygirl2008 go to Township Maine plenty of Passamaqauddys there

[MultiMudskipper]

Good job.

[aman4peace]

one nation one tribe edward church

[bflat1887]

I'm very impressed by your work here. It's even more impressive because of your age and depth of research skills.

Every Maine resident should see this

[truewarriorwithpride]

this video was done pretty good. im glad i could see it. my mom was always telling this to me and my brothers and sister. i may be only half Passamaquoddy but I fully imbrace my native side.

[pdana81]

@truewarriorwithpride I tell my girls the same thing.... They are half also, i made sure i had children with a half blood too, that way it evens out the bloodline and it doesn't drop. I also encourage my girls when they get older to married at least a half or quarter blood. Rate now we are working on a project to revitalize to language so all our people will once again be speaking the language

[RobotHerd]

This video is so sad to me. I found out recently that my great grandmother was a full-blooded Passamaquoddy Indian and I feel cut off from my ancestors. I gnash my teeth in anguish!

[aman4peace]

@RobotHerd some times it is sad who we don't relize where we come from when it comes roots.I have NAtive American Heritagein my dads family and some in my dads family some look Native American / I was told I came from one of the tribes...by the ones who son's father who was 3 quarters Native American ..I know he was a very dark tan looking man who was my dad first cousin. but I to as well enbrace this culture. if any thing came against these People who are from my heritage I would stand with em

[Noodlz2009]

Great video...very well done. Don't believe the lone naysayer. Most of us are more than a little proud of who we are and where we come from.

[09129823]

At 3:25, my Grandfather is on the right.

[cellodad808]

Hope you don't mind, I passed a link to this video to My National History Day teachers as an exemplar that they can use with their students. Exceptionally well done. (btw: Dad of Chris P. IAA cello '09)

[sockabasin420]

Shireen whoever you are, you did a great job on this video. Dolly hit the nail on the head at the end of the clip.

and fuck you pbass, you aint a member of my tribe talking shit like that. Just cause you live on the rez don't mean shit...

[pbass15]

Fuck Passamaquoddies

Our tribe at the point is so fucked up all little nigger wanna-bes. We aren't a tribe anymore in my eyes.

[jordan5554]

go Fuck yourself

[ndnwarrior1983]

thats fuked up u gotta be like that asshole....

[pbass15]

How am I an asshole? For stating the fucking truth? I bet any money you are just like one them, wearing your nigger hood clothing listening to rap and getting fucked up every night instead of being like the elders. Fuck you, rot in hell.

[ndnwarrior1983]

No i dont dress like that u racist prick! so go fuck yourself! i will kick your kick ass bitch

[pbass15]

Yes I am SOOO racist to my own race hahahaha, you are a fucking moron. Nice threatening over the internet, retard.

[pdana81]

U obviously dont know what ur talking about and ur defanitly an apple! sockabasin is right, u aint no member of our tribe talking shit like that. Ur probably one of those punk ass kids who are jealous cause u dont know shit about our culture or language but thats not our fault, its ur parents fault for not teaching you!

[pdana81]

And if you havent noticed, alot of people from alot of different tribes dress like that. There are half black kids and adults that are part of our tribe and ur just putting them down buy saying the N word! So yes ur are racist against ur own people, and ur not that smart if you didnt know ur could be racist against ur own!

[pdana81]

If you dont like here then just leave, its that simple. Ur probably one of them people who are only Passamaqouddy when land claims comes out, so there! You have no right to talk about our tribe that like! Why dont u put ur real name on here? Scared people will find out who u are? We take pride in being Passamaquoddies, obviously you dont know what that means... Im talking to pbass15!

[pdana81]

sorry, i misspelt a couple of words cause i was typing too fast. i know how to spell Passamaquoddy lol, itd be sad if i couldn't spell my own tribes name.

[TotalCleansing]

Shut your mouth indian.

[pdana81]

Yes we are Native Americans, and proud of it!

[cymbeli]

To think I came so close to raising little passam halflings...thanks great vid.

[oceanra3]

You are so right Kani.

[gatewaynoble]

wow yeah thats great , nice documentary. so anyway this country is a sick joke , this is really pissing me off watching people get away with fucking murder every single fucking day. every fucking day i see people getting screwed over , i call it "perpetual ass rape" i fucking hate watching with my fucking eyes and people just.....fucking get away with it right in front of everyone. im gonna fucking jack somebody up.

[kanimalsom]

that was a very nice video. if you are interested in doing another video on a more recent conditions, this didn't really change that much, we are still pour more ways than one. we have corrupt tribal government on both reservations. the people are really suffering.

[ReZkAtt]

im passamaquody

[Dangelique]

thank you for this documentary.. i am partial passamoquady and am happy i stumbled acrossed this video.. :) well done

[Passamaquoddyproud]

Who are you an anthroplogist or a passamaquoddy? I know where more documents are if you want to find them. And the behind the scense notes about the Mass. Nic Muck tribe. (sorry not to sure on the spell of this dieing tribe). They love my mother and trust her. She has passed away but they know me. If you wanted to meet them i could arrenge it.

[shireenhinckley]

Thanks, but I'm just a 16 year-old girl in high school who decided to make a documentary. Thank you though.

[MrPenobe]

@Passamaquoddyproud ''Mic mac'' is how it would sound.. i'm not positive on hows its spelled.

[pdana81]

@MrPenobe Mi'kmaq is how it's spelled

[Passamaquoddyproud]

Thank you for your mini documentry. Very well done. you made an 11 year battle and still covered the major high lights. Thank you, Adrien Stevens

daughter of John Stevens and Susan McCulloch

[shireenhinckley]

Thank you, I tried my best.

[Passamaquoddyproud]

Who are you? Are you Passamaquoddy?

[shireenhinckley]

Shireen Hinckley, I'm not Passamaquoddy, but my grandfather was Edward Hinckley, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Maine in the 60's.

[katiegirl033]

it is a shame what had happend.

but this video is really cool.

it looks like it was done as a program that they would play on like Pbs or something.

it is really good though.

Where did you get all that old footage?

like the old news broadcasts.

[ptaji]

yey great. I am glad I could watch this again.

[stevetomah]

together we are still strong!

don't ever forget that! we are as one!

[kanimalsom]

that's not true, we are so f-up!!!

[shadowraven2004]

Wow, cool! This must've taken forever...

I'm going to watch it, just not tonight, since right now I'm actually supposed to be studying for history... >_>

But I'll post again once I actually have something to say!

[shadowraven2004]

Yeah, nevermind. I can't study history when there's something more interesting to watch!

That was REALLY good! I never knew about the case, let alone any of the issues it raised. I can't believe something like that would happen in our own government, that we would deny those people what we said was theirs. That they were forced into backing down and taking less than what they deserved makes me really angry. I think you did an excellent job on this! :)

[blue81692]

yay shireeny beany!!