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The Abenaki Indian Shop and Camp is a historic Native American site in the Intervale section of Conway, New Hampshire.The site is a camp established by Abenakis who were lured to the area by the prospect of making baskets and selling them to visitors to the resort areas of the White Mountains in the late 19th century, and operated into the late 20th century.
Joseph Laurent, an Abenaki chief (sôgmô) from Odanak, Quebec, moved to Intervale, New Hampshire in the late 19th century, maintained an Indian trading post and became a local postmaster. His former trading post is now a U.S. historical site. Laurent also wrote an Abenaki English dialogs dictionary. [24]
New Hampshire does not recognize any Abenaki tribes. [23] It has no federally recognized tribes or state-recognized tribes; however, it established the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs in 2010. [33] The various Cowasuck, Abenaki and other Native and heritage groups are represented to the Commission.
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.
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The Androscoggin (Ammoscongon) were an Abenaki people from what are now the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire. By the 18th century, they were absorbed by neighboring tribes. By the 18th century, they were absorbed by neighboring tribes.
The etymology of Pequawket is disputed but might come from pekwakik, which translates "at the hole in the ground". [2]Their name is also spelled 'Pigwacket and many other spelling variants, and Dean Snow suggests it may have come from Eastern Abenaki apíkwahki, "land of hollows").
Vermont's Abenaki chiefs defended their identities ahead of a symposium at UVM where they will be questioned as frauds by Abenakis from Canada.