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The Abenaki (or Abnaki) are a tribe of Native American and First Nations people belonging to the Algonquian peoples of northeastern North America. They are located in an area the Eastern Algonquian languages call the Wabanaki (Dawn Land) Region. The Abenakis were one of the five members of the Wabanaki Confederacy, the other four being the ...
Cowasuck. The Cowasuck, also known as Cowass, was an Algonquian -speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America and the name of their primary settlement. Linguistically and culturally the Cowasuck belonged to the Western Abenaki and the Wabanaki Confederacy. [2] They were Western Abenaki who lived in and around the village of ...
by Sam Bell ‘24.5. Western Abenaki is an Eastern Algonquin language, and a part of the larger Algonquin language family, spoken by members of the Abenaki tribe. Before contact with European colonists, Western Abenaki was spoken primarily in the Lake Champlain area. It is an incredibly endangered language, considered by organizations such as ...
Jan 18, 2012 · Published Online January 18, 2012. Last Edited November 18, 2021. Abenaki (also referred to as Wobanaki or Wabanaki) take their name from a word in their own language meaning “dawn-land people” or “people from the east.”. Their traditional lands included parts of southeastern Quebec, western Maine and northern New England.
The name of the Androscoggin is derived from an anglicization of the Abenaki-language term Ammoscocongon, which was the name given for the portion of the Androscoggin river from Lewiston Falls northward, as stated by Pere Pole in 1793. Distribution
Apr 29, 2024 · Abenaki, Algonquian -speaking North American Indian tribe that united with other tribes in the 17th century to furnish mutual protection against the Iroquois Confederacy. The name refers to their location “toward the dawn.”. In its earliest known form, the Abenaki Confederacy consisted of tribes or bands living east and northeast of present ...
Henry Lorne Masta (March 9, 1853 – May 12, 1943) was an Abenaki writer, teacher, and scholar of the Abenaki language. He was also a respected leader in the Abenaki community. [1] Masta published Abenaki Legends, Grammar, and Place Names in 1932. He began writing the book in 1929 at 79 years of age. [2]
