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Wabanaki Confederacy
The Waponahkiyik, known in English as the Wabanaki Confederacy, is a historical confederacy located in the Wabanaki (Dawnland) area, now called New England (particularly Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire) and the Canadian Maritimes (particularly Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.) Members of the Wabanaki Confederacy?the Wabanaki peoples, or simply the Wabanakis?consisted of five Algonquian tribes:
and were closely allied with the Innu and Algonquin, and with the Iroquoian-speaking Wyandot. With the 1749 treaty, Great Britain joined the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Wabanaki Confederacy disbanded in 1862, but the five Wabanaki nations still exist, and they remain friends and allies today. "Wabanaki Confederacy" in various indigenous languagesThe term "Wabanaki Confederacy" in many Algonquian languages literally means "Dawn Land People." Wabanaki Confederacy can be translated into Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Abenaki-Penobscot, Algonquin, Anishinaabe, Odawa, and Potawatomi as:
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