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Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, Koasek Abenaki Tribe, Elnu Abenaki Tribe, and the Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe are, as of 2011, all state-recognized tribes in the United States. The Missisquoi Abenaki applied for federal recognition as an Indian tribe in the 1980s but failed to meet four of the seven criteria.
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.
Prior to European contact, some Western Abenaki founded villages at the mouth of the Missisquoi River. By the 17th century, Western Abenaki from across Lake Champlain consolidated into the main village at Missisquoi in northern Vermont, so historians began to use the term "Missisquoi tribe" for all Champlain Valley Abenakis. [2]
The Cowasuck, also known as Cowass, is an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America and the name of their primary settlement.. Linguistically and culturally the Cowasuck belong to the Western Abenaki and the Wabanaki Confederacy. [2]
The river name refers to the tribe of Native Americans (called the Nashua or Nashaway Tribe), an Abenaki tribe that inhabited the lands in Worcester County. Various translations of the word relate ...
Penobscot people historically spoke a dialect of Eastern Abenaki, an Algonquian language. It is very similar to the languages of the other members of the Wabanaki Confederacy. There are no fluent speakers and the last known Penobscot speaker of Eastern Abenaki, Madeline Tower Shay, [11] died in the 1990s.
The Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe is one of four state-recognized tribes in Vermont, [5] who claim descent from Abenaki people. The Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe specifically claims descent from the Missiquoi people. They are not federally recognized as a Native American tribe. [5] Vermont has no federally recognized tribes. [5]
The Abenaki people at one time were forced to grow American crops but secretly cultivated them by saving seeds and passing them down generationally. Cultivating Abenaki crops and an understanding ...