Abenaki Tribe

Location: New England; Southeastern Quebec

Language: ALgonquain

Eastern Abenaki: Penobscott and Passamaquoddy (two largest tribes), Houlton Maliseet, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Ossipee, and Pigwacket.

Western Abenaki: Vermont Abenaki

Well knon Leaders: Massasoit, son of Massasoit Metacom (King Phillip),

Brief Timeline
War, famine and disease depopulation the tribes in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1524: French expediton led by Giovanni da Verranzano was early recorded contact with non Indians

1600's: Fur trading began with the French and English

1600'S: their villages raded by the Iroquois.

1604: Samuel de Champlain a fur trader encounterd many of the Abenaki tribes.

1675-1676: King Phillip's War

1689-1697: joined the French against the English during the French and Indian War

Intertribal conflict with the Micmac

Jesuit missionaries were the first, with the Roman catholic and Protestant missionaries following

1702-1713: Queen Anne's War

1980: President Carter signed a bill granting Passamaquoddy and Penobscot millions in restitution for the loss of their homelands.

1982: Vermont Abenaki applied for federal recognition

Reservations
Penobscot Reservation

Old town, Maine

Important Web Sites

 * Constitution of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People of the Greater Abenaki Nation of the Wabanaki Confederation of N'dakinna approved 2005
 * Abenaki Nation Official Website
 * Abenaki Wikipedia
 * Abenaki Genealogy -- a website devoted to biography, genealogy, and history of the tribe.