{"id":2030,"count":1,"description":"The Penobscot (Panawahpskek) are a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine. They were (and are) significant participants in the historical and present Wabanaki Confederacy, along with the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi'kmaq nations.\nThe word \"Penobscot\" originates from a mispronunciation of their name \"Penawapskewi.\" The word means \"rocky part\" or \"descending ledges\" and originally referred to the portion of the Penobscot River between Old Town and Bangor. The tribe has adopted the name Penobscot Indian Nation.\nPenobscot is also the name of the dialect of Eastern Abenaki (an Algonquian language) that was ancestral language of the Penobscot people, which is now an extinct language (the last fluent native speakers have died). The Penobscot Nation is making an attempt to teach it to its children as a second language.\nLittle is known about the Penobscot people pre-contact. Native peoples are thought to...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/penobscot\/","name":"Penobscot","slug":"penobscot","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}