Historic Recordings Returned to Passamaquoddy Tribe

A project of digital repatriations is empowering the tribe to reclaim invaluable cultural knowledge

Alice Riddell
Dec 5, 2019 · 5 min read
Walter Jesse Fewkes records the Passamaquoddy Tribe in 01890. Photo: Passamaquoddy Cultural Heritage Museum.

01890¹, anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes traveled to Eastern Maine to document the Passamaquoddy Tribe. By then, war, disease, and unhonored treaties by local and federal authorities had reduced the tribe to…

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