Group
Wabanaki Confederacy
The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated roughly as "People of the First Light" or "People of the Dawnland") are a First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal nations: the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, and Penobscot.
Members of the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Wabanaki peoples, are in and named for the area which they call Wabanahkik ("Dawnland"), generally known to European settlers as Acadia.
It is made up of most of present-day Maine in the United States, and New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island and some of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.
The Western Abenaki live on lands in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts of the United States.
In its most recent official communications, the Confederacy has emphasized common cause with and acceptance of alliances with environmental activists toward the goal of protecting their land and waters. They gained powers under the United Nations 2010 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) and related treaties which major powers have signed.
Member Cities
- Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Aulac New Brunswick Canada Location
- Beaubassin Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Boston Suffolk Massachusetts United States Location
- Bristol Bristol Rhode Island United States Location
- Canso Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Casco Cumberland Maine United States Location
- Chignecto Bay Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Crown Point Essex New York United States Location
- Dartmouth Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Five Islands Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Fort Edward Washington New York United States Location
- Fort Lawrence Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Fort William Henry Warren New York United States Location
- Grand Prè Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Halifax Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Hortonville Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Isthmus of Chignecto Canada Location
- Lake George Battlefield New York United States Location
- Lake George Warren New York United States Location
- Louisbourg Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Lunenburg Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Masstown Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Memramcook New Brunswick Canada Location
- Petitcodiac New Brunswick Canada Location
- Port Elgin New Brunswick Canada Location
- Port Royal Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Port-la-Joye Prince Edward Island Canada Location
- Sackville Nova Scotia Canada Location
- St John New Brunswick Canada Location
- St Peters Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Sydney Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Tatamagouche Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Truro Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Wallace Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Walton Nova Scotia Canada Location
- Windsor Nova Scotia Canada Location