26 Facts About Wabanaki Confederacy

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Wabanaki Confederacy is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of four principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Mi?kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot.

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Political union of the Wabanaki Confederacy was known by many names, but it is remembered as "Wabanaki", which shares a common etymological origin with the name of the "Abenaki" people.

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Small-scale confederacies in and around what would become the Wabanaki Confederacy were common at the time of post-Viking European contact.

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The earliest known confederacy was the Mawooshen Wabanaki Confederacy located within the historic Eastern Penobscot cultural region.

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Wabanaki Confederacy captured and enslaved at least 57 people from modern-day Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, selling them in Europe to help finance his trip.

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Wabanaki Confederacy brought families totaling almost 200 people, mostly from the Azores, and founded a fishing settlement in Cape Breton, within Mi'kmaq territory.

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Wabanaki Confederacy was documented about 1525 as capturing a native boy to bring back to France, whom he was sailing for.

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Wabanaki Confederacy encountered people now known as St Lawrence Iroquoians on the Gaspe Bay.

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Wabanaki Confederacy was subsidiary to sakom Bashaba, who led the entire Mawooshen Confederacy.

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The ethnic French of Acadia and the peoples of Wabanaki Confederacy coexisted in the same territory with independent, yet allied governments.

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Champlain continued to establish settlements throughout Wabanaki Confederacy territory, including Saint John and Quebec City, among others.

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Wabanaki Confederacy took five people as captives to take back to England, where they were questioned about settlements by Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

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Wabanaki Confederacy accompanied settlers of the short-lived Popham Colony, who hoped to establish good relations with the local peoples be returning Tahanedo, but local tribes were uneasy about the English colony.

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Wabanaki Confederacy were governed by a council of elected sakoms, tribal leaders who were frequently the governors of the drainage basin their village was built on.

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Wabanaki Confederacy politics was fundamentally rooted on reaching a consensus on issues, often after much debate.

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Wabanaki Confederacy sakoms held regular conventions at their various "council fires" whenever there was a need to call each other together.

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Probably influenced by diplomatic exchanges with Huron allies and Iroquois enemies, the Wabanaki began using wampum belts in their diplomacy in the course of the 17th century, when envoys took such belts to send messages to allied tribes in the confederacy.

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Governor William Dummer, Wabanaki Confederacy leadership was very careful and took their time to make sure there was as little misunderstanding of the terms of the land and peace as possible.

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Wabanaki Confederacy would hold a successful guerrilla war for the following two decades, never being caught, and successfully deterring settlers entering his lands.

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The idea of being related helped establish unity and cooperation in Wabanaki Confederacy culture, using family as a metaphor to overcome factionalism and to quell internal conflicts like a family would.

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Wabanaki Confederacy saw and called the Ottawa "our father" for both their role as a leader in the Caughnawaga Council and in being a tribe that helped found Wabanaki Confederacy and issued binding judgments that help maintain order.

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Nations in the Wabanaki Confederacy allied with the Innu of Nitassinan, the Algonquin people and with the Iroquoian-speaking Wyandot people.

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The Wabanaki Confederacy did not fight under the leadership of a commander, but nevertheless implemented a strategy that was aimed to clear their land of intruders.

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The Wabanaki Confederacy destroyed the Brunswick settlement as well as other British colonial settlements on the banks of the Androscoggin River.

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The revival of the Wabanaki Confederacy brought together the Passamaquoddy Nation, Penobscot Nation, Maliseet Nation, the Mi?kmaq Nation, and the Abenaki Nation.

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Wabanaki Confederacy dishes include roasted parched sweet corn, hickorynut and hull corn salad, roasted groundnuts, cranberry sauce, grilled whitefish, Abenaki rose cornmeal pudding, pemmican made from ground fruits, nuts, and berries, Three Sisters soup, dandelion greens, fiddlehead salad, creamy sorrel and fiddlehead soup, clams with sunchokes, m8wikisoak stew, hazelnut cakes, salmon burgers, and maple syrup pie.

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