Abnaki

American  

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

noun

Abnakis plural

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

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

In 1646 went on an expedition to the Abnaki tribes of Maine, who had become interested in Christianity through converts of the Sillery mission.

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

Abnaki of Mayne, and the British frontier; represented at present by the St. John's Indians.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

It is from the Abnaki, sa'ghede'aki, "land at the mouth."

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

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)