The Passamaquoddy were pushed off their original lands repeatedly by European settlers from the 1800s. After the United States achieved independence from Great Britain, these people were eventually officially limited to the current Indian Township Reservation, at , in eastern Washington County, Maine. It has a land area of and a 2000 census resident population of 676 persons. They also control the small Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation in eastern Washington County, which has a land area of and a population of 749, per the 2010 census.