Some Mi'kmaq have turned away from the Roman Catholic Church over the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools, but others have maintained their faith.
Just before the last ship returned to England in the fall of 1607, leaving the Popham colonists to face a brutal Maine winter, the colonists reached out to a nearby friendly Indian named Nahaniida.
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.
Popham Colony
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The Popham Colony (1607-1608 CE, also referred to as the Sagadahoc Colony) was an English settlement established in the present-day town of Phippsburg, State of Maine, USA, in August 1607 CE. The expedition which founded the site was comprised of about 100 men and boys whose principal goal was to establish a fort and build ships. The colonists arrived in August of 1607 CE, too late to plant crops, and many returned to England that fall when food began to run out. The remainder stayed until the fall of 1608 CE. Their leader, George Popham (l. 1550-1608 CE), had died in February 1608 CE and that fall his successor, Raleigh Gilbert, decided to return home upon hearing he had inherited his father s estate; the other colonists followed him home.