Rebuilding the Wabanaki Confederacy - dominionpaper.ca
Rebuilding the Wabanaki ConfederacyNon-Indigenous participate in Confederacy Gathering for first time in centuriesSEPTEMBER 5, 2012by MILES HOWEST MARY'S FIRST NATION, UNCEDED WABANAKI TERRITORY (NB)—On September 1 and 2, for the first time in several hundred years, non-Indigenous peoples were invited to participate in the last two days of the week-long Wabanaki Confederacy Gathering.The Wabanaki (translated roughly as 'People of the First Light') Confederacy's current incarnation comprises five principal nations—the Mik'maq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki and Penobscot—and stretches from the colonial borders of Newfoundland in the North, mid-Maine in the South, and parts of Quebec in the West.At its zenith, the Confederacy consisted of close to 50 nations, went South to the mid-Carolinas, included most of the interior of the United States, and reached into Ontario.Read more: https://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4600read more
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