Pleasant Point Penninsula, Sipayik walking trail

We had a 4 mile walk on a bike and walking trail through the Passamaquoddy Reservation this afternoon.

We were honored by chance to meet Dwayne Tomah, a Tribal Leader working to restore the lost Passamaquoddy language. Dwayne is the youngest speaker, the rest of the fluent speakers are elders. He is involved in an amazing project to transcribe 130 year old recordings of Tribal stories and songs recorded on wax cylinders in the 1890s.

We were warmly welcomed to Sipayak and he shared a very emotional story with us. Yesterday, the Passamaquoddy Tribe buried the remains of their ancestors, some over 6,000 years old. The remains were finally returned by the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard College.

If anyone is interested in learning more, here is a link to a Library of Congress video Ancestral Voices Roundtable and an article as well.

https://www.mainepublic.org/arts-and-culture/2019-08-05/after-more-than-a-century-recordings-from-the-passamaquoddy-tribe-are-being-restored-and-shared?_amp=true



For the Record,
This day came in sunny and glorious with cool temps.

[Joan Robillard]

Beautiful scene and cloudscape

[Kitty Hawke]

Interesting narrative. Love those clouds.

[Boxplayer]

Beautiful scene and really fascinating article.