Wabanaki Area Scouting, New Brunswick

Camp Wabanaki, a YMCA camp

Depending on the literature and the reference language the author/speaker uses, the term "Wabanaki" may be presented in many different ways. In addition, often "Easterner" (literally: "Dawn person") and "Wabanaki" (literally: "Dawn-land person") are used synonymously by some Algonquian language-speaking groups.

The Mi'kmaq The Mi'kmaq ([miːgmaɣ]; (also spelled Míkmaq, Mi'gmaq, Micmac or MicMac) are a First Nations people, indigenous to northeastern New England, Canada's Atlantic Provinces, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. The word Míkmaw is an...

The Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati or Pestomuhkati in the Passamaquoddy language) are a Native American/First Nations people who live in northeastern North America, primarily in Maine and New Brunswick. The Passamaquoddy lacked a written history before...

The Maliseet (or Wolastoqiyik) are a Wabanaki Native American/First Nations people who inhabit the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, between New Brunswick, Quebec, and...

people speaking one of the Eastern Algonquian languages

The Penobscot are a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern U.S., particularly Maine. They were and are significant participants in the historical and present Wabanaki Confederacy, along with the Passamaquoddy,...

area referred as the "Dawn land" by many Algonquian-speaking peoples to describe the oriental region of the North American continent, generally described as being New England in the United States and the Maritimes in Canada

synonym for the Wabanaki Confederacy, a Native American alliance located in the northern Wabanaki region