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The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner"; also: Wabanakia, "Dawnland" [1]) is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.
The Abenaki (Abenaki: Wαpánahki) are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was predominantly spoken in Maine, while the Western Abenaki language was spoken in Quebec, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
The "Algonquian-speaking Wabanaki People" have occupied many of the Maritime areas in Canada (Quebec, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova-Scotia and New Brunswick) and the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts) for thousands of years.
The Wolastoqiyik, [1] also Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite or Maliseet (English: / ˈ m æ l ə s iː t /) [2] are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.They are the Indigenous people of the Wolastoq (Saint John River) valley and its tributaries.
Articles relating to the Wabanaki Confederacy (c. 1680s–1862), a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of four principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Miꞌkmaq, Maliseet (), Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.
Wabanaki, Wabenaki, Wobanaki, etc. may refer to: Wabanaki Confederacy, a confederation of five First Nations in North America Abenaki, one member Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy; People who speak one of the Eastern Algonquian languages
Glooscap turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884. Glooscap (variant forms and spellings Gluskabe, Glooskap, Gluskabi, Kluscap, Kloskomba, or Gluskab) is a legendary figure of the Wabanaki peoples, native peoples located in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Atlantic Canada.
Pictograph signature of Bomoseen (or Bomazeen), Abenaki sachem. The Treaty of Portsmouth, signed on July 13, 1713, ended hostilities between the Eastern Abenakis, a Native American tribe and First Nation and Algonquian-speaking people, with the British provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire.