| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
The Abenaki (also Wabanaki) are a tribe of Native Americans belonging to the Algonquian peoples of the Northeast portion of North America.
The Abenakis inhabited the area that includes parts of the province of Quebec in Canada, and portions of the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in the United States. The language of the Abenakis shared common roots with neighboring tribes such as the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and other New England tribes. Note, however, that the tribes of the Five Nations in what is now New York state, were linguistically segregated from the other AlgonquianThe Algonquian languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (others are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). They should be carefully distinguished from Algonquin, which is tribes in the northeast. There were also significant cultural differences between the Algonquian tribes and those of the five nations with religious differences being the most noticeable.
There are very few native speakers of the Abenaki tongue still alive, and they are all in Canada. While there are members of the tribe living in close proximity to each other in Quebec and Vermont most other Abenakis have dispersed into the general population.
Abenakis are not a federally recognized tribe in the United States. This is true of almost all of the eastern tribes. This is due to the decimation or assimilation of tribal populations well before the US government began acknowledging the sovereignty of native tribes.
The Abenaki were ruled by elected chiefs called Sagamores , who usually served for life but could be impeached. They had little actual power, but EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sean colonizers still treated them like monarchThis article treats the generic title monarch . For the origins of the word king and its English use, see Germanic king. For other meanings of the word, see Monarch (disambiguation A monarch is a type of ruler or head of state. The word derives from Greeks, resulting in many miscommunications and oversimplifications.
See also: Abenaki mythologyThe Abenaki (also Wabanaki) are a Native American tribe located in the northeastern United States. Religious ceremonies are led by shamans, called Medeoulin (Mdawinno). The history of the Abenaki people is divided into three time periods. In the first, th