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Barry Dana was the chief of the Penawahskewi Sakama ([|Penobscot tribe]) in 2005. This American Indian tribe is located on Indian island off the coast of Maine near Rockport, Maine. Barry Dana has always been around American Indians his whole life, learning there ways as a child from his grandmother and other elder American Indians. when he grew up and became an adult he traveled all around Maine and told and taught young children of the ways of the American Indians. He also went around showing and telling people the bads of stereo typing people and American Indians especially. He also went around and shared the stories of the American Indians.

The vice president of the Penawahskewi Sakama when Barry Dana was chief was Michael M. Bear Barry says that his grandmother and grandfather influenced him to love the ways of living on the Penobscot water and also to love and treat the life that they once lived. He also hunts deer and moose and makes canoes out of birch bark trees. Barry also started and runs the 100 mile race from the shore of Indian Island to Mt. Katahdin. Two of Barry's favorite quotes are: "If a man wants to prove himself, then the land is a good place to find out" and "Lot of work to this Indian way." Barry sys that people today migrate south near Acadia and other parts of Maine's coast like the Penobscot people did many years ago.

The Penobscot nation has about 3 thousand members, 500 of them live on Indian island in the Penobscot River in Maine. The Penobscot tribe has the oldest continued government in the world.

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