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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.
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.
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 .
The name Cowasuck comes from the Abenaki word Goasek which means "White Pines Place", an area near colonialist named Newbury, Vermont. [4] [5] The members of the tribe are called Goasiak (singular: Goasi), which means "the people of the white pines".
An audience filled the Livak Ballroom at the University of Vermont's Davis Center Thursday evening for the third in a series of three presentations contending Vermont's four Abenaki tribes are fake.
Abenaki had as few as twelve native speakers in 2015, but with recent focus and extra efforts in the Abenaki community, this number seems to be growing. Today, there are some passionate Abenaki, like Jeanne Brink, [30] and non-Abenaki people who are trying to revitalize Abenaki culture, including their language and basket-making traditions ...
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 ...