A report on Wabanaki Confederacy, Vermont, Maine and New England
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the United States.
- VermontMaine is a state in the New England region of the United States, bordered by New Hampshire to the west; the Gulf of Maine to the southeast; and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively.
- MaineNew England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
- New EnglandIt is made up of most of present-day Maine in the United States, and New Brunswick, mainland Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island and some of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River, Anticosti, and Newfoundland in Canada.
- Wabanaki ConfederacyThe Western Abenaki live on lands in Quebec as well as in Vermont, and New Hampshire within the United States.
- Wabanaki ConfederacyMany of the tribes later formed the Wabanaki Confederacy during King Philip's War.
- VermontDuring the later King Philip's War, many of these peoples would merge in one form or another to become the Wabanaki Confederacy, aiding the Wampanoag of Massachusetts and the Mahican of New York.
- MaineDuring the next 74 years, there were six colonial wars that took place primarily between New England and New France, during which New England was allied with the Iroquois Confederacy and New France was allied with the Wabanaki Confederacy.
- New EnglandMaine's Moosehead Lake is the largest lake wholly in New England, since Lake Champlain is located between Vermont, New York and Québec.
- Maine13,000 French settlers were evicted by the British and the land was occupied by settlers from New England, Britain and other European countries, including Ireland and Germany.
- Wabanaki ConfederacyAs of the 2010 census, Vermont was the second-whitest state in the U.S. after Maine.
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New Hampshire
1 linksNew Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the United States.
It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.
Father Rale's War was fought between the colonists and the Wabanaki Confederacy throughout New Hampshire.
Abenaki
1 linksIndigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.
Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.
They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
The Eastern Abenaki language was predominantly spoken in Maine, while the Western Abenaki language was spoken in Quebec, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Wôbanakiak is derived from wôban ("dawn" or "east") and aki ("land") (compare Proto-Algonquian *wa·pan and *axkyi) — the aboriginal name of the area broadly corresponding to New England and the Maritimes.