Nov 20, 2012 · This article contains interesting facts, pictures and information about the life of the Abenaki Native American Indian Tribe of the Northeast woodland cultural group. The Abenaki Tribe Summary and Definition: The Abenaki were farmers hunter gatherers and fishers whose lands stretched from Lake Champlain, the St. Lawrence River basin and south ...

Dummer's War is also known as the Fourth Anglo-Abenaki War. The three previous Indian Wars were King Philip's War or the First Indian War in 1675, King William's War or the Second Indian War, and Queen Anne's War or the Third Indian War (1703–11).. Queen Anne's War ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The colonial borders of northeastern America were reshaped as …

The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner") is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of four principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Miꞌkmaq, Maliseet (), Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.The Western Abenaki are also considered members, being a loose identity for a …

The Iroquois (/ ˈ ɪr ə k w ɔɪ / or / ˈ ɪr ə k w ɑː /), officially the Haudenosaunee (/ ˌ h oʊ d i n oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n iː / meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/Turtle Island.They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy.

Oct 10, 2022 · However, one of the only Abenaki petitions to the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs lasted 27 years, ending in 2007 when the Interior Department denied recognition for the Vermont-based St. Francis ...

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the start of the war, the French colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers, compared with 2 million in the British colonies.

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. The name refers to their location “toward the dawn.” In its earliest known form, the Abenaki Confederacy consisted of tribes or bands living east and northeast of present-day …

Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The population was 11,315 at the 2020 census. It is home to two prep schools: Lawrence Academy at Groton, founded in 1792 and the third-oldest private school in Massachusetts; and Groton School, founded in 1884.. The town was a battlefield in …

It soon became common to lump all such groups under the term "Indian." In the modern American world, we still do. ... The Algonkian chiefs tried to achieve consensus, but the Natchez "Sun" was an absolute monarch. ... From Abenaki to Winnebago, this independent website offers brief histories of nearly 50 Native American groups. ...

The siege of Fort William Henry (3–9 August 1757, French: Bataille de Fort William Henry) was conducted by a French and Indian force led by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm against the British-held Fort William Henry.The fort, located at the southern end of Lake George, on the frontier between the British Province of New York and the French Province of Canada, was garrisoned …