Abenaki

Ab·e·na·ki  (äb-näk, b-nk) or Ab·na·ki (äb-näk, b-)

n. pl. Abenaki or Ab·e·na·kis or Abnaki or Ab·na·kis In all senses also called Wabanaki.

1.

a. Any of various Native American peoples formerly inhabiting northern New England and southeast Canada, with present-day populations in Maine and southern Quebec.

b. A member of any of these peoples.

2.

a. A confederacy of Abenaki and other peoples formed in the mid-18th century in opposition to the Iroquois confederacy and the English colonists.

b. A member of this confederacy.

3. Either or both of the two Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.

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[Probably Montagnais wabankiwek, dawn land people, Abenaki.]

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Noun

1.

Abenaki - a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec Abnaki Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast