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Penobscot -- U.S. County in Maine
Population (2000): 144919
Housing Units (2000): 66847
Land area (2000): 3395.726054 sq. miles (8794.889730 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 160.413049 sq. miles (415.467871 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3556.139103 sq. miles (9210.357601 sq. km)
Located within: Maine (ME), FIPS 23
Location: 45.171930 N, 68.722469 W
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Penobscot, ME
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Penobscot

The Penobscot (Panawahpskek) are a people with members who reside in the United States and Canada, where they have a federally recognized tribe in Maine and a First Nations band government in the Atlantic provinces.

The Penobscot Nation, formerly known as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, is the federally recognized tribe of Penobscot people in the United States. They are part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, along with the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi'kmaq nations, all of whom historically spoke Algonquian languages. Their main settlement is now Penobscot Indian Island Reservation located within the state of Maine along the Penobscot River.

Penobscot (disambiguation)

The Penobscot are an indigenous ethnic group of the Northeastern Woodlands. Penobscot may also refer to:

Usage examples of "penobscot".

The Marquis de Nesmond, with a powerful squadron of fifteen ships, including some of the best in the royal navy, sailed for Newfoundland, with orders to defeat an English squadron supposed to be there, and then to proceed to the mouth of the Penobscot, where he was to be joined by the Abenaki warriors and fifteen hundred troops from Canada.

He is popular among the Abnaki, Algonquin, Penobscot, and Wabanaki tribes, and the spelling of his name varies from Glooscap to Gluscabe, Gluscabi, Gluskab, etc.

Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

The sea was tinted allover pink and through its surface the islands of Penobscot Bay seemed to be ascending as if they would lift completely free of the sea and become part of the pattern above.

These, with the Penobscots or Tarratines, are the Etchemins of early French waiters.

Penobscot, Algonquin, Huron, Ojibway, Mohawk, Yakima, Okanagan, Tlingit, Chinook, Beaver, Tanana, Cree, Bannock, Crow, Shoshone, Cheyenne.

Impossible even to imagine that Mohawk and Mahican had once wandered here - yes, and Wampanoag, Narraganset, Pequot, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Abnaki, Malecite, Micmac.

Their villages were on the waters of the Androscoggin, the Saco, the Kennebec, the Penobscot, the St.

Then they had crossed the Penobscot River to Bucksport, where they had stayed another three days before moving on toward the coast again.

Neither the C* nor the Penobscot was a dedicated slaver, but both vessels carried a handful of Molts as part of their general cargo.