Wabanaki Confederacy
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Wabanaki Confederacy
The Waponahkiyik, known in English as the Wabanaki Confederacy, is a historical confederacy located in the
Wabanaki
(Dawnland) area, now called
New England
(particularly
Maine
,
Vermont
and
New Hampshire
) and the Canadian
Maritimes
(particularly
Nova Scotia
and
New Brunswick
.)Members of the Wabanaki Confederacy—the Wabanaki peoples, or simply the Wabanakis—consisted of five Algonquian tribes:
Abenaki
Míkmaq (
Mi'kmaq
or Micmac) Penawapskewi (
Penobscot
)Pestomuhkati (
Passamaquoddy
)Wolastoqiyik (
Maliseet
or Malicite) and were closely allied with the
Innu
and
Algonquin
, and with the
Iroquoian
-speaking
Wyandot
. With the 1749 treaty,
Great Britain
joined the Wabanaki Confederacy.
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