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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.
However, the French practice of calling the Cowasuck by the name Penacook, led to misunderstandings in their reports. [13] [better source needed] This however is not mentioned in another authoritative source on the Penacook. [14] The tribes of the Western Abenaki were referred to by the names of each individual group.
Kancamagus (pronounced "kan-kah-mah-gus", "Fearless One", [1] "Fearless Hunter of Animals" [2]), was the third and final Sagamore of the Penacook Confederacy of Native American tribes. Nephew of Wonalancet and grandson of Passaconaway, [3] Kancamagus ruled what is now southern New Hampshire.
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
At some point prior to the Pilgrims' arrival he became sachem (chief) of the Pennacook, and eventually bashaba (chief of chiefs) of a multi-tribal confederation in parts of today's New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine, members of which originally drew together for mutual protection from attacks by other Native groups.
The Franklin Falls area was occupied by the Penacook tribe of the Abenaki people at the time of European settlement of New England in the 17th century (documentation which has been confirmed by archaeological evidence found at Odell Park). Colonial settlement of the area did not begin until the late 1740s, and the area did not experience ...
Pages in category "Pennacook people" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. P. Passaconaway; Plausawa; W.
[2] Because Mosely had destroyed Pennacook in the late fall, Nobhow, Mystic George (a Pawtucket powwow), and many of the party died during the trip. Those who survived returned through the snow in January having not found Wonalancet, who had ostensibly fled to his wife's people (the Abenaki) to the north after the destruction of Pennacook by ...