Media Studies Online

Wabanaki Confederacy

Wabana'ki Mawuhkacik

People of the Dawn

This site was created at Məkíhkanək in Wαpanáhkik on the ancenstral homelands of the Abenaki people. The Abenaki are one of the historical members of the Wabanaki Confederacy. Today, the Wabanaki Confederacy includes the Abenaki, Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik), Mi’kmaq, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy First Nations in Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, and Quebec. As a result of displacement due to settler colonialism, most Abenaki people today live on the Wôlinak and Odanak reserves in Quebec, Canada. The Wabanaki people have cared for this land going back nearly 13,000 years.

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Resources

• Abbe Museum
• Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq
• Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn (Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative)
• Maine Native Studies (Maine Department of Education)
• Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI
• Mi'kmaq Online Talking Dictionary
• Mi'kmaq Resource Centre (Cape Breton University)
• Mi'kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre
• Mi'kmaw Conservation Group
• Native American Studies Guide (University of Maine)
• North Shore Micmac District Council
• Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal
• Penobscot Cultural & Historic Preservation
• Sovereignty Guide for Allies (Abbe Museum)
• Wabanaki Alliance
• Wabanaki REACH
• Sunlight Media Collective
• Wabanaki Collection
• Wabanaki Public Health

Further Reading

• The Marshall Decision and Native Rights: The Marshall Decision and Mi'kmaq Rights in the Maritimes by Ken S. Coates (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000)
• Doug Knockwood, Mi’kmaw Elder: Stories, Memories, Reflections by Doug Knockwood & Friends (Fernwood Publishing, 2018)
• Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia by Isabelle Knockwood (Fernwood Publishing, 2015)
• In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine by Donna M. Loring (Tilbury House, 2008)
• Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mt. Desert Island by Bunny McBride and Harald E.L. Prins (Down East Books, 2009)
• Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBride (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
• We Were Not the Savages by Danidel N. Paul (Fernwood Publishing, 2007)
• Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future by Neil Rolde (Tilbury House, 2004)
• Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England edited by Siobhan Senier (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
• An Upriver Passamaquoddy by Allen J. Sockabasin (Tilbury House, 2007)
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Tin House, 2022)
• Niniskamijinaqik | Ancestral Images: The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography by Ruth Holmes Whitehead (Nimbus Publishing, 2015)

References

• Native Land Digital. (2023). Retrieved from https://native-land.ca/
• Prins, H. E. L. (2023). Abenaki. Salem Press Encyclopedia.
• The Wabanakis of Maine & the Maritimes. (2001) (2nd ed.) Wabanaki Program of the American Friends Service Committee.
• Wabanaki REACH. (2023, June 20). Interacting with Wabanaki-Maine History [Workshop]. Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters Teacher Camp, Lincoln, Maine.