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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.
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
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 ...
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.
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.
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 Cowasuck formerly resides on the upper Connecticut River, with the main village of Cowasuck, now Newbury, located in the states of New Hampshire and Vermont. [7] The river valley forest was a mixture of deciduous trees, hemlocks, and white pines, growing on light soils or old fields. [8]
Passaconaway was also recorded as being a Pawtucket chief sachem, who also held authority with the Wamesit, Pascataqua, and Pennacook peoples. [1] In December 1633, a smallpox epidemic killed both Wonohaquaham and Montowampate along with a large portion of the tribe, [7] leaving Wenepoykin and the Squaw Sachem as the leaders of a much smaller ...