state of Maine

The project is named for the first peoples of this territory—Wabanaki or People of the Dawn—which include Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Abenaki, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy.

8,000 Native Americans

Penobscot Indian Island Reservation is an Indian reservation for the Penobscot Tribe of Maine, a federally recognized tribe of the Penobscot in Penobscot County, Maine, United States, near Old Town.

Today, the four Maine Indian tribes are the Maliseet, Micmac, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy, known collectively as the Wabanaki, “People of the Dawnland.” Each community maintains its own tribal government, community schools, cultural center and each manages its respective lands and natural resources.

Maine’s Native Americans are part of the Algonquian-speaking native inhabitants of the Northeast. Maine tribes include the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians, the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy and the Penobscot Nation, which comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy.

Abenaki, also spelled Abnaki or Wabanaki, Algonquian-speaking North American Indian tribe that united with other tribes in the 17th century to furnish mutual protection against the Iroquois Confederacy.

Although most land in Maine is historically Wabanaki land, today their communities are mostly concentrated on reservations. Here is a map of current Indian Tribal Lands in Maine.

Wabanaki or Wa·ba·na·kis. A member of a Native American confederacy composed of the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot peoples, formed in the mid-1700s in opposition to the Iroquois confederacy and the English colonists.

The Abenaki were a deeply religious people. They believed that the Earth had always existed and called it their “Grandmother.” They also believed that a being called “The Owner” had created people, animals, and all natural things, such as rocks and trees, and that each natural thing had an individual spirit.

dawn-land people

Today four distinct tribes—the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot—are known collectively as the Wabanaki, or “People of the Dawnland.” Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park have remained in the center of Wabanaki traditional homelands for thousands of years.

ABOUT THE Wabanaki While the Wabanaki Confederacy was disbanded in 1862, the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot nations still exist and remain closely aligned, in part because all peoples claiming Wabanaki lineage have forbearers from multiple Wabanaki and colonial ancestries.

The British declared the Wabanaki Confederacy forcibly disbanded in 1862. However the five Wabanaki nations still exist, continued to meet, and the Confederacy was formally re-established in 1993.

However the five Wabanaki nations still exist, continue to meet, and the Confederacy was formally re-established in 1993. Today, each tribe has a reservation and government headquarters located within their territories throughout Maine.

The Abenaki originated in a region called Wabanahkik in the Eastern Algonquian languages (meaning “Dawn Land”), a territory now including parts of Quebec and the Maritimes of Canada and northern sections of the New England region of the United States. The Abenaki are one of the five members of the Wabanaki Confederacy.

Since first being targeted for destruction by Europeans during the 15th century, Wabanaki people have suffered a 96% population depletion due to disease, land dispossession and forced removal, decimation of traditions through Christian conversion, warfare between Europeans, and scalp bounties.

The Wabanaki understood the spoken word of the English differently than the written words of submission. The Wabanaki granted the English the permission they sought to return to their former forts and settlements and did not consider this submission. Both sides accepted the written Treaty as a symbol of friendship.

How did the British treat the Abenaki people? As Europeans settled the east coast of North America during the 1600s and 1700s, they forced many First Nations people from their homes. Europeans, including the British, also killed First Nations people or sold them into slavery. Some Abenaki relocated to New France.

The treaty recognized Queen Anne as the legitimate sovereign of England and officially ended French support for the claims of the Jacobite party to the British throne. Territorially, it resulted in major concessions by France in N America.

By the treaty with Britain (April 11), France recognized Queen Anne as the British sovereign and undertook to cease supporting James Edward, the son of the deposed king James II. France ceded Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, the Hudson Bay territory, and the island of St.

When the war ended in Europe, France surrendered a great deal of colonial territory in North America. These are the terms agreed to in the Treaty: All French forts in the northwest―the region covered by all the rivers that flowed onto the Hudson’s Bay―were surrendered to the British.

Their rights, as free and independent peoples were being abrogated and First Nations and African lands were also being taken. The Treaty of Utrecht also gave European nations license to forcibly remove Black people from Africa and bring them to the Americas as slaves.

They lost their foothold in Italy, and accepted – as did the Spanish – that the crowns of the two countries would never be united. The treaty expanded the British empire in the following ways: Britain acquired Gibraltar and Minorca, valuable trading concessions in Spanish America, and.

As of 1996, almost 80 per cent of First Nations were located more than 50 kilometres from the nearest access centre (RCAP, 1996[6]). Indeed, while representing 4.9% of the total population, Indigenous peoples hold around 626 000 km² or 6.3% of the total landmass of Canada.

Why are Treaties still relevant today? Historic and modern-day Treaties continue to be key elements in future relationships between the First Nations and the Crown. These concern First Nations traditional territories that were not included in the Treaty-making process.

With the Amerindians’ loss of their land came the loss of their former fishing, hunting and gathering grounds. They received in exchange land that became known as Indian reserves.