Article Cites University of Maine Native American Research
A Sun Chronicle article about a Biddeford City Council discussion on renaming a local park to honor the Abenaki Indian tribes included historical information about early tribal confederations in Maine that was attributed to a UMaine research paper from the mid-1990s. The article identified the Penobscot, Androscoggin and Wawenock tribes as being part of the Eastern Abenaki alliance, which was part of the larger Wabanaki Confederation. The confederation included both the Eastern and Western Abenaki, in addition to the Passamaquoddy of Maine, Micmac of Nova Scotia and Maliseets of eastern Maine and New Brunswick. Wabanaki homeland also extended from the Canadian Maritimes through most of northern New England to Lake Champlain in Vermont.
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