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Maliseet

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Mal·i·seet  (ml-st) or Mal·e·cite (-st)
n. pl. Maliseet or Mal·i·seets or Malecite or Mal·e·cites
1.
a. A Native American people inhabiting the St. John River valley in New Brunswick and northeast Maine. The Maliseet helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Maliseet.
[From Micmac malisiit, one who speaks an incomprehensible language.]
Maliseet [ˈmælɪˌsiːt]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) a member of a Native Canadian people of New Brunswick and E Quebec
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the Algonquian language of this people
[from Micmac malisiit one speaking an incomprehensible language]
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It made me proud to be a Maliseet silversmith representing our people to do such a huge thing.
Artist work commissioned for high honour by Narine, Shari / Windspeaker
I'm proud that our area has played an important role in the cultural exchange of so many distinct peoples as the native tribes of Micmac and Maliseet, Acadian folks, the New England Colonists and our American Loyalists, as well as the Scottish and Irish immigrants of the nineteenth century and, of course, the people from Europe, Asia and the Middle East in more recent times.
John Watson UE by The Loyalist Gazette
Much of the region his party surveyed was the homeland of the Wabanaki peoples, particularly the Penobscot and Maliseet along the Penobscot and Saint John Rivers.
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