Abenaki set up villages along rivers and lakes where they had access to water and could hunt, farm, and fish using traps called weirs.Ībenaki: People of the Dawn By the late 1600s the Abenaki population in New Hampshire was declining. Land was not owned, but used according to custom, season, and need. Abenaki life was observed and recorded by European explorers of the early 1500s. The Abenaki were one of the five members of the Wabanaki Confederacy the other four being the Maliseet, the Mi'kmaq, the Passamaquoddy, and the Penobscot.ĭawn Land: Abenaki Maps Western Abenaki Region Eastern Abenaki Region.Ībenaki: People of the Dawn The Abenaki, like their fellow Wabanaki tribes, were peaceful, although they were often forced to defend themselves against the Iroquois. They are located in an area the Eastern Algonquian languages call the Wabanaki or Dawn Land Region. The Abenaki& Dawn Land An Interdisciplinary Exploration: Native Peoples & Places of New Hampshire’s White Mountainsĭawn Land: Abenaki Creation Story Adapted from the novel Dawn Land (2010) by Will Davis (Adapter, Illustrator) & Joseph Bruchac (Author)Ībenaki: People of the Dawn The Abenaki are a tribe of Native American and First Nations peoples belonging to the Algonquian nation of northeastern North America.
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