Penobscot Nation
Sign in to saveThe Penobscot (Abenaki: Pαnawάhpskewi) are an Indigenous people in North America from the Northeastern Woodlands region. They are organized as a federally recognized tribe in Maine.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Penobscot
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Pαnawάhpskewi
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Penobscotlogo.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Seal of the Penobscot Indian Nation
- Ethnic group.population
- 2,278 enrolled members
- Ethnic group.region1
- (Maine)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 2,278 (0.2%)
- Ethnic group.langs
- Abenaki, English
- Ethnic group.rels
- Wabanaki mythology, Christianity
- Ethnic group.related
- Abenaki, Wolastoqiyik, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 2095
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- Commons category
- Penobscot
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~20 min read
Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Name
- Government
- History
- Pre-contact
- Contact and colonization
- Land claims
- Language
- [[Ethnobotany]]
- Visual art
- Baskets
- Birchbark canoes
- Spirituality
- Nature
- Gambling
- In popular culture
- Notable Penobscot
- Maps
- See also
- References
- External links
The Penobscot (Abenaki: Pαnawάhpskewi) are an Indigenous people in North America from the Northeastern Woodlands region. They are organized as a federally recognized tribe in Maine.
The Penobscot Nation, formerly known as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, is the federally recognized tribe of Penobscot in the United States. They are part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, along with the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Wolastoqiyik, and Miꞌkmaq nations, all of whom historically spoke Algonquian languages. The Penobscots' main settlement is now the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, located within the state of Maine along the Penobscot River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penobscot Nation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.