The Tarrantines are a tribe of Native Americans inhabiting northern New England, particularly coastal Maine.
The name Tarrantine is the word the Massachusett tribe uses to refer to the Abenaki people.
In the first three decades of the 17th century, the Tarrantines have a warlike reputation with their southwestern neighbors.
The Tarrantines are spared the epidemic of 1617 that devastates the Native American populations to their south, leaving the neighboring tribes greatly outnumbered.
Due to their proximity to fur traders of Maine and Quebec, the Tarrantines have access to firearms, giving them a technological advantage as well.
