The Passamaquoddy: A People Reborn

A ten minute documentary on the Maine Indian Land Claims Case. Written, filmed, narrated and edited by Shireen Hinckley. I conducted the interviews in August of 2007.

I submitted it to the Future of Cinema International Film Festival in Interlochen Michigan, where it won second overall, and first in the documentary division. This was also a Senior Division, Individual Documentary submission to the 2008 National History Day competition where it won third place in the Boston-area Regional Competition.

For the bibliography, see

http://www.marrowbones.com/commons/technosocial/Maine%20Indian%20Land%20Claim...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• indian
• maine
• documentary
• passamaquoddy
• land
• government
• federal
• tribe
• discrimination
• 1960
• 1980
• interlochen
• competition

[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.

[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.

[stevetomah]

together we are still strong!

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

[ptaji]

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

[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!

[MrPenobe]

@gizzygirl2008 go to Township Maine plenty of Passamaqauddys there

[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

[pdana81]

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

[pdana81]

@MrPenobe Mi'kmaq is how it's spelled

[Rebeccahhack19]

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