Passamaquoddy

The Passamaquoddy are one of the few Algonquin-speaking tribes on the east coast whose language survived European contact. Donald Soctomah, a fluent speaker of his language and a tribal historian, looked through the Frank Speck collection at the APS and identified many people in the photographs whose descendants still live in the community today.
This is part of the larger exhibition "Through Indigenous Eyes" available through the American Philosophical Society.
This video was originally uploaded August 27, 2013 to the "APSLibrary" TH-cam channel.