A 13,000-year journey leads to a breaking point
Over eons, the tribe's ancestors established a cycle of sustenance on their lands. Then the Europeans arrived.
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Colin Woodard, Staff Writer
A strip of standardized, federally built homes, stand amid the forests along Peter Dana Point Road on the Indian Township reservation, north of Princeton. The Passamaquoddy have hunted, fished and lived in eastern Maine for at least 13,000 years, but much has changed over the past two centuries.
Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer
SAINT CROIX ISLAND — It was here, on a tiny island near the mouth of the St. Croix River, just south of Calais, that Europeans first tried to plant a settlement in what is now New England.