PLEASANT POINT - Joseph "Cozy" Nicholas, a Passamaquoddy tribal elder, historian and World War II veteran who represented his people for many years in the Legislature, died Thursday in Pleasant Point after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 83.

Nicholas was a longtime barber, first in Bangor and later in Eastport. He lived his entire life in Maine, aside from his deployment overseas in the 1940s on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, and was well known and respected throughout the Passamaquoddy community for his commitment to preserving American Indian culture.

"He was really an icon of cultural renewal and a living example of a person who did things instead of said things," said Wayne Newell, a ...

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