Maliseet
noun
a member of an Indigenous people of southern and western New Brunswick and northern Maine.
Maliseets
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pluralof Maliseet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Recently Father Loverja had come to stay with the Maliseets of Medoctec in consequence of their urgent request for a missionary, their village being eighteen leagues from Aukpaque, where Father Germain was stationed.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
Nor was it by any means a false alarm, for on the 8th of December about 300 Micmacs and Maliseets surprised and captured an English officer and eighteen men and attacked the fort at Minas.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
The younger Pierre Thoma was most probably his father’s successor as chief of the Maliseets.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
All the tribes east of the Merrimac took part in it, including the Maliseets and Micmacs.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
The unfortunate conduct of some of the New England governors together with other circumstances that need not here be mentioned, led the Maliseets to be hostile to the English.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
