Passamaquoddy

(păsˌə-mə-kwŏdˈē)

1. a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of coastal Maine and New Brunswick along the Bay of Fundy, with present-day descendants in eastern Maine. The Passamaquoddy helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century.
   b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, dialectally related to Malecite.