The Penobscot are invited to send a nonvoting representative to the Maine House of Representatives. The Penobscot Nation is headquartered in Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Maine. It was misheard by European colonizers as 'Penobscot,' which gives them their name today. The Penobscot's name for themselves, Pαnawάhpskewi, means 'the people of where the white rocks extend out.' It originally referred to their territory on the portion of the Penobscot River between present-day Old Town and Verona Island, Maine. Their main settlement is now the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, located within the state of Maine along the Penobscot River. They are part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, along with the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Miꞌkmaq nations, all of whom historically spoke Algonquian languages. The Penobscot Nation, formerly known as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, is the federally recognized tribe of Penobscot in the United States. They are organized as a federally recognized tribe in Maine and as a First Nations band government in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec.
The Penobscot ( Abenaki: Pαnawάhpskewi) are an Indigenous people in North America from the Northeastern Woodlands region. Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy
