The Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc. is a not-for-profit organization representing the interests of the Passamaquoddy People, known in their language as Peskotomuhkati. This organization has office locations in St. Stephen, and St. Andrews, New Brunswick. The traditional territory of the Peskotomuhkati Nation encompasses the watershed of the Skutik (St. Croix) River, and Passamaquoddy Bay. It is a Nation which spans between Canada and the United States of America, with two communities in Maine and one community in New Brunswick. The Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc. is represented in Canada, working for the Peskotomuhkati at Skutik Community.
For centuries, the Peskotomuhkati way of life was a seasonal, cyclical round, in which the people left light footprints on the land. They would be in specific places at specific times of the year: upstream on the lakes in mid-December when the Cod were spawning; inland after that to hunt caribou and tap maple; down to the Bay in the spring to dig clams and fish behind the weirs; out to the islands to take seal and porpoise; upstream to the salmon falls in the summer, fishing and gathering as they went. With this in mind, the Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc. strives to keep conservation as an underlying value in its pursuits to preserving the Peskotomuhkati culture, territory, and ways of life.
