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Like many other people using this website you are clearly very confused about the meaning of the word Algonquin. It is the name of a single tribe made up of many small bands living along the Ottawa river valley in Canada (where they have always lived); they are also called Algonkin.

The similar word Algonquian (with a second a) refers to a very large group of tribes speaking distantly-related languages; this language group includes tribes from all over North America, including all the tribes in the area that later became Maine.

Maine Algonquians are:

  • Maliseet or Malecite
  • Passamaquoddy
  • Abenaki
  • Pennacook
  • Penobsot

In the 18th century these tribes allied themselves in the Wabanaki confederacy

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