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Wabanaki

American  
[wah-buh-nah-kee] / ˌwɑ bəˈnɑ ki /

noun

  • Wabanakis,
    plural
  • Wabanaki
    plural
  1. Abenaki.


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She was a co-organizer of “Jeremy Frey: Woven,” the first solo exhibition of a Wabanaki artist at a fine art museum in the United States.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

The legislature voted in June to let most federal laws apply to Wabanaki tribes in a move designed to put them on equal footing with other federally recognized tribes in the U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

“I believe the interest we share to do right by the Wabanaki Nations and Maine people must be accomplished through legislation that is clear, thoroughly vetted, and well understood by all parties,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

They stand alongside the Nez Percé singer Julia Keefe — a songbird of a jazz vocalist, who also fronts a big band — and the Wabanaki bassist, composer and vocalist Mali Obomsawin.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

For the past few weeks in Molly’s American History class they’ve been studying the Wabanaki Indians, a confederacy of five Algonquian-speaking tribes, including the Penobscot, that live near the North Atlantic coast.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

“Eh, I don’t know,” Tyler Baldwin says one day in American History after they watch a film about the Wabanakis.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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