Question: Including this First Nations tribe located in Maine, how many are linked in a confederation?
Context: Marcel Colomb First Nation - (MCFN) Band #328 is a First Nations tribe aka Band, of approximately 417 Registered Rocky Cree people (Maškēkowak / nēhinawak) located in the area of Lynn Lake, Manitoba.  Located within the reserve is a Water Treatment plant, 14 houses, Band Office and other infrastructure projects under development.  The "Black Sturgeon Falls Reserve" locally referred to as Mile 21 or "the Promised Land", is located within the area of Hughes Lake - approximately 30 kilometres southeast of Lynn Lake. The Banu Abs (Arabic: بنو عبس‎ ‎ ,  "sons of ʿAbs") are an ancient Bedouin tribe from central Arabia.  They form a branch of the powerful and numerous Ghatafan tribes.  They still inhabit the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa but have spread to many other regions of the world, as well.  Their descendants today include the large Bani Rasheed tribe located in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Eritrea, and Jordan, and the Banu Rawaha located mostly in Oman and the UAE.  Parts of the Mahas tribe of the Butana region in Sudan is also linked by blood to the Banu Abs due to intermarriage between the Sudanese Rashaida tribe and the Mahas peoples.  Of the earliest stories concerning this tribe was the famous classical love and war story of Antar and Abla. The Wabanaki Confederacy ("Wabenaki, Wobanaki", translated roughly as "People of the First Light" or "People of the Dawnland") are a First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal nations: the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, and Penobscot. The Penobscot ("Panawahpskek") are an indigenous people in North America with members who reside in the United States and Canada.  They are organized as a federally recognized tribe in Maine and as a First Nations band government in the Atlantic provinces. The Halalt First Nation is a First Nations tribe located on a reservation near Chemainus in southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.  The historical territory of the Halalt people is the lower Chemainus River Valley and Willy Island, which is offshore from today's town of Chemainus. First Nations in Alberta are indigenous peoples who live in the Canadian province of Alberta.  The First Nations are those peoples (or nations) recognized as Aboriginal peoples in Canada excluding the Inuit and the Métis.  According to the Canadian census, in 2001 a population of 84,990 Albertans reported a "North American Indian" (i.e. First Nations) identity, rising to 116,670 in 2011 or 13.7% of all First Nations people in Canada, giving Alberta the third largest First Nations population among the provinces and territories (after Ontario and British Columbia).  From this total around half of the population lives on an Indian reserve (58,782 Registered Indians lived on-reserve in Alberta in 2005).  The rest of the population lives off-reserve, amongst the rest of the Canadian population.  Many of these are urban Aboriginals living in cities, especially Edmonton (the provincial capital) which had an off-reserve status population of 18,210 people in 2011, the second highest for any city in Canada (after Winnipeg).  Besides this there were 19,945 people in Alberta in 2011 who claimed a North American Indian identity on the census but are not part of the official Indian Register; such people are commonly called "non-status Indians".  There are 48 First Nations or "bands" in Alberta (in the sense of governments made up of a council and a chief), belonging to nine different ethnic groups or "tribes" based on their ancestral languages. Alfred Young Man, Ph.D. or Kiyugimah (Eagle Chief) (born 1948) is a Cree artist, writer, educator, and an enrolled member of the Chippewa-Cree tribe located on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, Montana, US.  His Montana birth certificate lists him as being 13/16th Cree by blood-quantum, but one of his full sisters, Shirley, is listed as 16/16ths.  He is a former Department Head (2007–2010) of Indian Fine Arts at the First Nations University of Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan and former Chair (1999–2007) of Native American Studies, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.  He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lethbridge and University of Regina. Henri Membertou (died 18 September 1611) was the "sakmow" (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, site of the first French settlement in Acadia, present-day Nova Scotia, Canada.  Originally "sakmow" of the Kespukwitk district, he was appointed as Grand Chief by the "sakmowk" of the other six districts.His exact date of birth is not known.  However, Membertou claimed to be a grown man when he first met Jacques Cartier, which would mean that he was probably born in the early years of the sixteenth century. The Kiral are a very small Durrani Pashtun tribe located in Maruf district, Kandahar province.  Affiliation with larger tribe or tribal confederation unknown. The First Nations Endangered and Endangered Languages Program (FNEL, formerly known as the First Nations Languages Program, FNLG) was initiated in 1996 as part of University of British Columbia’s ongoing commitment to community-based collaboration with First Nations peoples, in recognition of the profound importance of First Nations languages, and the rich cultural traditions they represent.  FNEL and UBC’s Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking Musqueam people.
Answer: five principal nations