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

Brief Timeline
War, famine and disease devastated the population in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1524: French expediton led by Giovanni da Verranzano

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

1600's: fur trading began with the French and English.

1689-1763: joined the French against the Enlish French and Indian Wars

1980:

1982:

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.