page_title: Wabanaki Confederacy
hierarchical_section_title: Wabanaki Confederacy
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the max range of the Wabanaki Confederacy based off of cultural boundaries of the five tribal populations that made it up at around its formation in the early 1,600's. Yellow is the Miꞌkmaq. Orange is the Wəlastəkwewiyik (Maliseet), Red is the Passamaquoddy, Brown is the Penobscot, and Cayenne is the Western Abanaki. The large mixed area to the north was part of Wabanaki territory but is not part of the cultural boundaries of the individual 5 tribes. This may in part be due to it's recent acquisition (In relationship to the formation of Wabanaki) from Iroquois tribes that were pushed out of the area as identified by Samuel de Champlain during the establishment of Quebec City. Algonquin people would have started moving into the land around the same time the French would.
context_page_description: The Wabanaki Confederacy are a First Nations and Native American confederation of four principal Eastern Algonquian tribes: the Miꞌkmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. The Western Abenaki are also considered members, being a loose identity for a number of allied tribal peoples like the Pennacook, Sokoki, Cowasuck, Missiquoi, and Arsigantegok, among others.
  The Passamaquoddy wampum records describe that there were once fourteen tribes along with many bands that were once part of the Confederation. Native tribes like that of the Norridgewock, Etchemin, and Canibas, through massacres, tribal consolidation, and ethnic label shifting were absorbed into the five larger tribal identities.
  Members of the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Wabanakik, are in and named for the area which they call Wabanaki, roughly the area that became the French colony of Acadia. It is made up of most of present-day Maine in the United States, and New Brunswick, mainland Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island and some of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River, Anticosti, and Newfoundland in Canada.
context_section_description: The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner") are a First Nations and Native American confederation of four principal Eastern Algonquian tribes: the Miꞌkmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. The Western Abenaki are also considered members, being a loose identity for a number of allied tribal peoples like the Pennacook, Sokoki, Cowasuck, Missiquoi, and Arsigantegok, among others.  
  The Passamaquoddy wampum records describe that there were once fourteen tribes along with many bands that were once part of the Confederation. Native tribes like that of the Norridgewock, Etchemin, and Canibas, through massacres, tribal consolidation, and ethnic label shifting were absorbed into the five larger tribal identities.  
  Members of the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Wabanakik, are in and named for the area which they call Wabanaki ("Dawnland"), roughly the area that became the French colony of Acadia. It is made up of most of present-day Maine in the United States, and New Brunswick, mainland Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island and some of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River, Anticosti, and Newfoundland in Canada. The Western Abenaki live on lands in Quebec as well as New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts of the United States.
caption: Yellow - Miꞌkmaq, Orange - Maliseet, Red - Passamaquoddy, Brown - Penobscot, Cayenne - Western Abenaki
  The dots are the listed capitals, being political centers in Wabanaki.
  
  The mixed region is territory outside of the historic ranges of the five tribes. It was acquired from the Iroquois between 1541-1608 with Abenaki peoples having moved in by the time Samuel de Champlain came to the region establishing Quebec City.
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