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Though information on the Passmaquoddy tribe is scanty, it seems as though St. Andrews was at least a ceremonial location for the Passmaquoddy Tribe perhaps centuries before white occupation. There are middens in the area and stories of sacred burial grounds.

Some time after the founding of the town in 1784 the Passmaquoddies moved to Indian Island and after that to Eastport, Maine, where they retain a reservation today. The only remnants of the Passmaquoddies in St. Andrews are Chief Hugh Akagi and sister Cate Akagi at Indian Point.

One Mr. Akagi's forebears, Chief John Nicholas, was a colorful charcacter who lived to the age of 103.