Abnaki

American  

[ab-nak-ee, -nah-kee] / æbˈnæk i, -ˈnɑ ki /

noun

plural

Abnakis,

plural

Abnaki

1. Abenaki.

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Abnaki British  

/ æbˈnɑːkɪ /

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Maine and Quebec

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

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Example Sentences

Appointed missionary to the Abnaki Indians on the St. John River, 1845.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

Abnaki, a Confederacy of Algonquin tribes, formerly occupying what is now Maine and Southern New Brunswick.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

A more ingenious but still arbitrary mode of giving intelligence is practiced at this day by the Abnaki, as reported by H.L.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

New England States, contrasted with New France, 15, 130-4; and the Iroquois, 89-90, 104-5, 151-2; at war with New France, 123-30, 138, 151-152; and the Abnaki raids, 147-8.

From The Fighting Governor A Chronicle of Frontenac by Colby, Charles W. (Charles William)

Penobscot is a corruption of the Abnaki pa'na8a'bskek.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)