An Upriver Passamaquoddy

Drawing on his memories and an oral tradition, Allen Sockabasin returns to his Passamaquoddy village of Mud-doc-mig-goog, or Peter Dana Point, near Princeton, Maine. When Allen was a child in the 1940s and 1950s, his village was isolated and depended largely on subsistence hunting and fishing, working in the woods, and seasonal harvesting work for its survival. To the outside world, they lived in poverty, but Allen remembers a life that was rich and rewarding in many ways, and he explains why preserving the Passamaquoddy traditions and language is so critical to his people's survival in modern times.