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  2. Abenaki - Wikipedia

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    The Missisquoi Abenaki applied for federal recognition as an Indian tribe in the 1980s but failed to meet four of the seven criteria. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The Bureau of Indian Affairs found that less than 1 percent of the Missisquoi's 1,171 members could show descent from an Abenaki ancestor.

  3. Missiquoi - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Wabanaki Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe - Wikipedia

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    The Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe is the only Vermont state-recognized tribe to have petitioned for federal recognition. Under the name St. Francis/Sokoki Band of Abenakis of Vermont, the group applied for federal recognition first in 1980, then 1992, and finally in 2007. [ 9 ]

  6. Penobscot - Wikipedia

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    The Penobscot Nation, formerly known as the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, is the federally recognized tribe of Penobscot in the United States. [2] They are part of the Wabanaki Confederacy , along with the Abenaki , Passamaquoddy , Wolastoqiyik , and Miꞌkmaq nations, all of whom historically spoke Algonquian languages .

  7. Cowasuck - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Cultivating Abenaki crops and an understanding of Indigenous ...

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    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 ...

  9. Norridgewock - Wikipedia

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    Norridgewock (Abenaki: Nanrantsouak) was the name of both an Indigenous village and a band of the Abenaki ("People of the Dawn") Native Americans/First Nations, an Eastern Algonquian tribe of the United States and Canada. The French of New France called the village Kennebec. The tribe occupied an area in the interior of Maine.