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About 650 native speakers of Wolastoqey remain, and about 500 of Passamaquoddy, living on both sides of the border between New Brunswick and Maine [citation needed]. Most are older, although some young people have begun studying and preserving the language.
The First Nations of New Brunswick, Canada number more than 16,000, mostly Miꞌkmaq and Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik). [1] [2] Although the Passamaquoddy maintain a land claim at Saint Andrews, New Brunswick and historically occurred in New Brunswick, they have no reserves in the province, and have no official status in Canada.
Tobique First Nation (Malecite-Passamaquoddy: Wolastoqiyik Neqotkuk) is one of six Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet Nation reserves in New Brunswick, Canada. The Tobique Reserve is located on the north side of the Tobique River .
It was located near the confluence of the Eel River and Saint John River in New Brunswick, four miles upriver from present-day Lakeland Ridges. [2] The fortified village of Meductic was the principal settlement of the Wolastoqey First Nation from before the 17th century until the middle of the 18th, and it was an important fur trading centre.
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.
The Brothers refers to a group of three small islands in the mouth of the Kennebecasis River, just north from Millidgeville in Saint John, New Brunswick.Also known as The Brothers Islands Indian Reserve #18, the islands, individually known as Indian Island, Goat Island and Burnt Island, [1] [2] were a Wolastoqiyik reserve when they were returned the islands in the 1830s. [3]
First Nation(s) Ethnic/national group Tribal ... Wolastoqey Tribal Council: n/a: 125.9 311.1: 1,038: 864: ... Neighbourhoods of New Brunswick; Name Part of ...
The Saint John River (French: fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: Wolastoq) is a 673-kilometre-long (418 mi) river flowing within the Dawnland region from headwaters in the Notre Dame Mountains near the Maine-Quebec border through western New Brunswick to the northwest shore of the Bay of Fundy.