Abenaki

[ ab-uh-nak-ee, ah-buh-nah-kee ]

/ ˌæb əˈnæk i, ˌɑ bəˈnɑ ki /

a member of a grouping of American Indian peoples of southern Quebec and Maine, earlier also of New Hampshire, Vermont, and northern Massachusetts.

any of the Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.

Also Abnaki.

Also called Wabanaki.

Example sentences from the Web for abenaki

The Pennacooks must have been at one time a numerous community, and were less warlike than any of the Abenaki race.

The Abenaki Indians |Frederic Kidder
I advise you to pull down all the forts you have built on the Abenaki lands since the Peace of Utrecht.

A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I |Francis Parkman
He was Abenaki by his mother; but he was absent when the attack took place, and the marauders seem to have shed no blood.

A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I |Francis Parkman
He adds (p. 111), that the chief of that name was probably an Algonkin who had migrated to the Abenaki country.

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. III: Acadia, 1611-1616 |Various

On the banks of this erratic stream lived an Abenaki tribe called the Sokokis.

A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I |Francis Parkman