Unsettled

Family’s quest for justice still burns, a half-century later

Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer Michael-Corey Francis Hinton, a Passamaquoddy Indian living and working as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., stands on the spot near the Pleasant Point reservation in eastern Maine where his great-grandfather, Peter Francis, was killed after a confrontation with five white hunters from […]

Family’s quest for justice still burns, a half-century later

The Passamaquoddy tribe still feels the wounds of Peter Francis' 1965 slaying, for which no one was held accountable.

Family’s quest for justice still burns, a half-century later

The Passamaquoddy tribe still feels the wounds of Peter Francis' 1965 slaying, for which no one was held accountable.

‘We are getting stronger’

Spring 2014 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A Passamaquoddy elder rests his hands on an oar while working near Long Lake in Indian Township this spring. The people on the tribe’s two eastern Maine reservations have spent decades fighting for their rights while struggling to preserve their […]

Reservation leadership changes, though little else does

2010 to 2014 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The pinhole camera captures the trailer home of a Passamaquoddy tribal member in the parking lot of the now-closed Creative Apparel Associates building in Indian Township. Changes in tribal leadership in 2010 did not lead to a longtime goal: […]

Tribe’s forests, a crucial resource, fall prey from within

2006 to 2014 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer An area off Peter Dana Point Road in Indian Township has been freshly logged in this pinhole camera photo. How the Passamaquoddy have managed forestlands in the past decade has led to a significant rift between the tribe’s two […]

Tribe’s dealings cloaked in secrecy, and distrust festers

2007 to 2010 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The factory doors have since closed at the Indian Township site for Creative Apparel Associates, a Passamaquoddy venture that once made chemical-protection suits for the military. A lack of transparency clouded many of the tribe’s business enterprises. Photo by […]

Tribe reels as its own leaders ‘become our oppressors’

2007 to 2010 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer A run-down basketball court at Pleasant Point. Decades after the land claims pact, Maine’s Passamaquoddy reservations have become difficult places in which to thrive. Ira Gilbert, a tribal member at Indian Township, puts it succinctly: “There’s a big law […]

New leader, new scrutiny on where the money goes

2006 to 2010 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer The tribal government building at Indian Township. Even after Bobby Newell was convicted of misapplying federal funds and a new governor stepped into the leadership role, questions about spending and appropriations persisted on the reservation. Photo by Gabe Souza/Staff […]