Penobscot Native American Indian girls dance.

[Mzdolittleme]

How lovely.Am French with wonderful Cherokee Spirit Guides ,who came to me late in life.Am honored ,call me silly even I can recognize words !

[YourGraceIsEnough777]

I know that I am part Native American...I havent talked to my dad about it lately but I think we are part MicMac or Algonquin. I am also mostly canadian, and some Irish. i love my heritage and im very proud of it. I am acually trying to write my own book, just for fun and it has to do with the Penobscot tribe and the Penobscot river area. That is what brought me here. Wonderful dancing, the songs give me chills = )

[TheBoyscout13]

@YourGraceIsEnough777 Algonquin is a language that us passamaquoddys learn early on it isnt a nation

[xiala1980]

I am a Penobscot Native. Though we also perform this song and dance, it is Passamaquoddy.

[nebraska8441]

great, don't lose your roots. Awasome girls and boys! ;)

[mmiller6465]

Anyone who can help me with my culture i would owe them my life and my brotherhood. please help me learn of the old ways......... im very passionate in this.

[cougartracks]

Tell me is Christianity a part of Indian culture, if i remember rightly they tried to destroy our identity along with us, i am confused why then have Indians given away our beliefs for something thats not true to us, now you either don't believe in our ancient ways or you don't, there's no room for false or make believe Indians,Christians can't stand what our ancestors believed in vnvhe Osceola.

[0024681]

Your Kidding Right?

We all believe in Mother Earth, and so the Great Sky Father who is God made that possible so Christians we all must be unless of course you don't believe in the Sky Father.. Us Indians are brought up learning Christianty. Don't be confused Cougar Tracks. The way we worship is the same way Washeshu Worship..

Linwood Red Hawk.

100th infantry..

LRH

[acerb45666555]

@0024681 .....Christianity is a strange thing! it changes with everyplace it goes! in Ireland it overlapped the traditional culture. which preserved the old ways just under the surface! actually, its on the surface!= Yule(christmas) festival! Easter! Halloween! these are all pre-christian festivals! this mix of belief made it easier for the missionaries to work with my wild war loving,(Celtic-Norse), ancestors who took heads for trophies!!

[Malsom1]

im passamaquoddy from indian township and thats a passamaquoddy song

[xiala1980]

We speak the same language, don't we? I mean, Penobscots and Passamaquoddy? (I'm Penobscot)

[mmiller6465]

im penobscot, i dont know much of my culture, ive looked, if you know abt the culture plz friend me on youtube. I'm not 100% penobscot but i am penobscot and no one in my family cares of my heritage but me, i feel lost can anyone help me

[NickArroyave23]

@mmiller6465

Im part Penobscot also, go to Penobscot Nation.org

Hope I could help :)

[0070795]

we did not lose our culture.

i live on the rez.

sure we have a few songs here and there from different tribes, but no international songs or influence. you dont know what ur talkin bout dude.

we have traditional outfits, songs, food, crafts on this place, ALL FROM THE PENOBSCOT CULTURE.

plus, the panawapskek landed on maine about 14, 000 years ago, and the plains and southwestern indians landed about 2000 years after, giving u more unforgotten knowledge. get ur story straight bud.

[cougartracks]

i agree with the late and very traditional Floyd Red Crow Westerman, one of the greatest, but you have your right to your opinion, vnvhe Osceola.

[mmiller6465]

im penobscot, i know nothin of my culture please help me, i feel lost. please befriend my and teach me the culture. i will owe you a great debt

[jadednyte]

These Native Americans have lost thier culture. They blend local, regional and even international influence to create something. This is why I am proud to be Southwestern Indian. We are the few that gaurd and know our culture to the end. Although, I know someday we will end up like these people.

[nativestyle26]

We have not lost all our cultur! for being the first native people to encounter Europeans,although alot has been lost like other tribes in North America, the Wabanaki(people of the dawn) community still holds onto our old traditional ways and fluency in our languages for the past 500 years, I would say thats pretty darn good and some Western tribes cant even say that so please do your research before judging so quickly

[Noodlz06]

I think you're a little confused by the video jadednyte. This video shows the community in Indian Island (Penobscots) teaching dances to the American Indian Dance Theater. The pow-wow dancers in the video are from the Dance theater as well as the stage performance at the end. Pretty proud comment, but you're misinformed and in the end your comment looks bad.

[nativestyle26]

who are the girls dancing at the end? i dont regonize anyone of the girls......

[tonysillyboy]

what are the words in that song mean?

[Ahwahneechee]

I don't know, but I really like the song. Maybe a Penobscot Native person would know, but I like the song and the dance. Tu'tu'was is the dance.

[rezpunk]

the words are instructions for which direction and how the ladies should dance within the song.

[nativestyle26]

@Ahwahneechee It's a Passamaquoddy song

[MrPenobe]

@tonysillyboy Most of them are not words there Chants. 

[zacleblanc]

im penobscot but my grandmother moved off the island when my moms was little, cool video

[mmiller6465]

wat do u know of the culture, anything you know would be a huge help, i know nothing of my culture and cant find anything that im looking for please help

[priest101]

holy crap... i know alot of those people... some family some just friends of family... its old though but i know barry, he was my neighbor back in the day when i lived on the island

[PrincessValdez]

U.N.I.T.Y. is going to Oklahoma this year. Natives from all over the nation will be there. Come share your culture, and meet new people. Their will be games and dances. Their will also be education workshops for teens about college and health...Famous native actor Adam Beach was there last year. Come see who will be there this year for UNITY. Hope to see you there. Visit unityinc. org for more information. I am going!:)

[SykoticPredator]

I recognized barry Dana....I thought it was a nice video surprised to see people from the Island on youtube...-shrugs-

[valatie]

Very nice!  Great singer and drumming, too.

[minogiizhigquay]

r these natives or white people? im sorry but i cant tell

[moowin]

i didn't recognize anyone dancing