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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.
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.
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.
The town lies in the southeast corner of the state, near the border of New Hampshire. The original meaning of Kennebunk stems from an Abenaki word meaning “long-cut bank." Kingsessing, Pennsylvania
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").
New Hampshire has the New Hampshire State Commission on Native American Affairs [26] but no state-recognized tribes. [27] Several organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes who identify as being Cowasuck are active in Vermont and New Hampshire; however, their claims to Abenaki ancestry are disputed. [28]
In 1725, the Androscoggin joined the Pequawket and migrated to the Connecticut River in New Hampshire. They later migrated north to Canada, where they settled in Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec, present day Abenaki First Nations of Odanak. [2]
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