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Historian David Stewart-Smith suggests that the Penacook were Central Abenaki people. [4] Their southern neighbors were the Massachusett and Wampanoag. [5]Pennacook territory bordered the Connecticut River in the West, Lake Winnipesauke in the north, the Piscataqua to the east, and the villages of the closely allied Pawtucket confederation along the southern Merrimack River to the south.
These two tribes are officially listed federally recognized as tribes in the United States. [17] The Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine was recognized by the federal courts as a tribe, but not having a land trust with the government [18] since never entering into a formal treaty. This launched the very long legal battle that paved the way for many ...
Pennacook (also Penacook, Penikoke, Openango), lived in the Merrimack Valley, therefore sometimes called Merrimack. Principal village Penacook, New Hampshire. The Pennacook were once a large confederacy who were politically distinct and competitive with their northern Abenaki neighbors. Smaller tribes: Amoskeay; Cocheco; Nashua
Muncy–after the Munsee people < Munsee language mənsiw, 'person from Minisink' (minisink meaning 'at the island': mənəs 'island' + -ink locative suffix) + -iw attributive suffix. [98] Nanticoke – From the Nanticoke language, 'Tide water people.' (In reference to themselves) [78] Nemacolin – after the 18th-century Lenape chief Nemacolin.
Eventually the minister was invited to live with the Pennacook people and teach the elderly sachem about Christianity. Legend says that after the preacher died suddenly from an illness, Passaconaway decided to step down from his position of authority, announcing before an enormous crowd at the yearly native gathering that his son Wonalancet was ...
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.
Contoocook (and river and lake): (Pennacook) "place of the river near pines" or (Abnaki) "nut trees river" or (Natick) "small plantation at the river" Coös: (Pennacook) "pine tree" Hooksett: (Pennacook) possible abbreviation of Annahooksett "place of beautiful trees" Mascoma River (and lake): (Abnaki) "much grass" or "salmon fishing" or "red ...
The dialect of the Massachusett also seems to have resisted syncope, which is obligatory in many late-stage SNEA languages, which may have been prevented in Massachusett due to fossilization as a written language. Massachusett people historically ranged over much of the Greater Boston region, lining the shores of Boston Harbor and extending ...