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Basic Facts

Location: New England; Southeastern Quebec

Language: Algonquian

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

Western Abenaki: Vermont Abenaki

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

Tribal Headquarters

Abenaki Nation
P.O. Box 276
Missiquoi, Vermont, 05488
Phone:802-868-6255
Website: Website

History

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 raided by the Iroquois.

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

1675-1676: King Phillip's War

1689-1697: Joined the French against the English

Inter tribal conflict with the Micmac

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

1702-1713: Queen Anne's War

1722- 1727: Dummer's War / Lovewell's War; initially an effort to defend their rights to their land supported and the French Jesuits.

1744-1748: King George's War -- the Abenaki, Missisquoi, St. Frances and Sokoki joined the French in fighting the English.

1756-1763 Seven Years' War or French and Indian War

1776-----: During the Revolutionary War the St. Francis Abenaki served with the British; the Panobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Micmac supported the colonists

Migration into Canada as Vermont denied land to the Abenaki

1805: The British gave land to the Abenaki (Canada)

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

Additional References to the History of the Tribe and/or Band

Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar and Place Names. by Henry Lorne Masta, Victoriaville, P.Q, La Voix des Bois-France 1932. FS Library Book: 970.2 Ab7im

Abenaki Indians: Their Treaties of 1713 and 1717, and a Vocabularty, with a Historical Introduction. by Frederic Kindder, FS Library Film 1688409

Records

The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:

Allotment records
Annuity rolls
Census records
Correspondence
Health records
Reports
School census and records
[[American Indian Vital Records Supplements in Census Rolls|Vital recor

Census Records

Census Records census of various Abenaki groups, early 1800-1852.

Important Websites

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 Wikipediadescribes subdivisions, history, culture, maps, notable people, and external links.

Abenaki Genealogy --Ne-Do-Ba a website devoted to biography, genealogy, and history of the tribe.

Ne-Do-Ba has genealogy helps for doing Abenaki family research.

Penobscot Indian Nation has information and a directory for this nation's government, as well as a page for Historical Background and a page for the Penobscot Nation Museum.