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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.
Glooscap turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884. Glooscap (variant forms and spellings Gluskabe, Glooskap, Gluskabi, Kluscap, Kloskomba, or Gluskab) is a legendary figure of the Wabanaki peoples, native peoples located in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Atlantic Canada.
Wabanaki, Wabenaki, Wobanaki, etc. may refer to: Wabanaki Confederacy, a confederation of five First Nations in North America Abenaki, one member Nation of the ...
[o] is a higher mid-back vowel pronounced like in the English word 'poke', however some speakers pronounce it like [ʊ]. [5] [ɔ̃] is a rounded nasalized vowel and is sometimes written as ô or simply as “8”. [6] [40] Historically, it was common for speakers to drop h between vowels and to drop w before the nasal vowel [ɔ̃]. [5]
The word Abenaki and its syncope, Abnaki, are both derived from Wabanaki, or Wôbanakiak, meaning "People of the Dawn Land" in the Abenaki language. [3] While the two terms are often confused, the Abenaki are one of several tribes in the Wabanaki Confederacy.
The history of wabanaki micmac maliseet education included a discussion of wabanaki tribes and land issues . the schools lead to band recognition in maine I.e job corps or related programs in maine; Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute Archived January 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, University of New Brunswick; Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal
Pejepscot is a historical settlement first occupied by a subset of the Androscoggin Native Americans (Formerly known as the Anasagunticooks) known as the Wabanaki.The region encompasses the current towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine in Sagadahoc and Cumberland counties and was first settled by English settlers in 1628.
Food was potentially scarce only toward the end of the winter, in February and March. For the rest of the year, the Penobscot and other Wabanaki likely had little difficulty surviving because the land and ocean waters offered much bounty, and the number of people was sustainable. [5] The bands moved seasonally, following the patterns of game ...