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Location	Maine, United States
Introduction	Born in the fall of 1988, I have been making baskets since I was 4 years old. After watching me collect her scraps and make "baskets" of knotted ash and sweetgrass every time she sat down to weave, my grandmother, Molly Neptune Parker, sat down with me and taught me how to do something that I don't even remember learning: how to weave a basket. One of the only tribes not forced from their ancestral homelands, the Passamaquoddy Tribe resides on the shores of the Passamaquoddy Bay at "Sipayik," or Pleasant Point near Easport, Maine, and along the shores of Lewey Lake at "Motahkmikuk," or Peter Dana Point near Princeton, Maine. The Wabanaki, or "People of the Dawn," which consists of the Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Penobscot and Micmac and Abenaki* tribes, have resided in the Maine area for 12,000 years. In 1604, Pierre Dugua, Sieur du Monts and Samuel Champlain sailed for the Maine/Canada area to found New France. Here they came into contact for the first time with Native peoples, the Passamaquoddy. *The Abenaki were historically part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Abenaki now reside in parts of Vermont and Canada.

Location

Maine, United States

Introduction

Born in the fall of 1988, I have been making baskets since I was 4 years old. After watching me collect her scraps and make "baskets" of knotted ash and sweetgrass every time she sat down to weave, my grandmother, Molly Neptune Parker, sat down with me and taught me how to do something that I don't even remember learning: how to weave a basket. One of the only tribes not forced from their ancestral homelands, the Passamaquoddy Tribe resides on the shores of the Passamaquoddy Bay at "Sipayik," or Pleasant Point near Easport, Maine, and along the shores of Lewey Lake at "Motahkmikuk," or Peter Dana Point near Princeton, Maine. The Wabanaki, or "People of the Dawn," which consists of the Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Penobscot and Micmac and Abenaki* tribes, have resided in the Maine area for 12,000 years. In 1604, Pierre Dugua, Sieur du Monts and Samuel Champlain sailed for the Maine/Canada area to found New France. Here they came into contact for the first time with Native peoples, the Passamaquoddy. *The Abenaki were historically part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Abenaki now reside in parts of Vermont and Canada.