Maine Coast and the Passamaquoddy people.

All I know about that area is from the Disney movie Pete's Dragon!

Post pictures, ok?

Here are a few things I found:
http://www.wabanaki.com/health.htm
http://www.passamaquoddy.com/
http://www.native-languages.org/passamaquoddy.htm
http://childrensafedowneast.com/pdf/5year-plan.pdf

Good luck to you and have fun

Those are some terrific links, Wolfie. Thank you.

My husband was born in Calais and raised in Baileyville, which is right down the road from Calais. We spent 5 years up there together, and try to go back yearly. You will find that cities are few and far between. Bangor is the biggest city and about an hour away. As far as places to visit...let me see... if you like to look at the rugged coast and don't mind that there aren't a whole lot of beaches, you could drive south along route 1 to Eastport, Maine. Unfortunately, I think their festival is over in the late summer, but they still have some fabulous restaurants with lobster rolls and clam chowder (or chowdah, if you are from Maine). For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the reservation that is just a little ways north of Baileyville, but I'm sure you would find it really easy. There just aren't that many places to go that far north. :chuckle.

Oh, and if you'd like, St. Stephen is just across the border from Calais. We used to scoot across there occasionally, although I think it's much harder now adays. We didn't used to have to show passports or anything like that. Oh, and I almost forgot! You have to have the pie at the restaurant just off of right 9, when you make the turn for Calais. It is the best!

As far as the Pasamoquoddy people, I'm sorry that I have no info or sites that I know of to help you. I know that my brother in law (he's a doctor) used to work on the reservation but now how his own practice in Baileyville. I do remember him saying that it is hard to get health care workers up that way because it is so remote and there is very little work. The paper mill in Baileyville is where a great deal of the people are employed and it has gone through several hands and layed off many people over the years. The last time we were in Baileyville and Calais,even, the population had declined so much! Ah, but I miss it! and I miss my in laws, too! I hope that this was a tiny bit helpful! Enjoy Maine! It's beautiful!


eta: Just wanted to let you know that Calais is pronounced callous, not callay! :lol I didn't know if you knew that so I thought I would mention it as the locals can always tell if you are not from around there by the way you pronounce their town name.

I am not sure what, if anything, this will do for ya, but there was an interesting PBS "reality" mini-series a couple years ago called "Colonial House" where a bunch of families went back in time to live as they would have in colonial times. It was filmed up in Maine on Passamquoddy land, I believe. The Passamaquoddy people were featured and it was quite interesting. You could check out the PBS web site (pbs.org) and do a search for the program. I know when it was first released they had a lot of info on there and I believe it included links. I still see the show on TV every once in a while so I'm sure they still have it on their web site.

Hope you enjoy your trip. I've never made it quite that far up in ME, but would very much like to one day. And enjoy the LL Bean store. It's open 24 hours!