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

It was used by the Abnaki Indians in describing to the whites the dwellers of the far north, and it means 'the people who eat raw meat.'

From The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)

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

They made attempts to christianize the Micmacs of Acadia, the Abnaki of the upper St John, the Algonquin tribes of the lower St Lawrence, and the Nipissings of the upper Ottawa.

From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Marquis, Thomas Guthrie

In 1651 again sent to the Abnaki to form an alliance with the New England colonies against the Iroquois, but in this was unsuccessful.

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