USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Historians estimate that in the early 1600s, 10, 000 Abenaki lived in what is now Vermont. For over 12, 000 years, Abenaki people have lived on this land. They hunted in the woods and fished in the rivers. The Abenaki grew crops in fields and built wigwams in villages.

Detailed explanation-2: -During much of the 17th century, the Abenaki were hunters, fishers and gatherers. Favoured game was more often moose than deer. They travelled mainly by birchbark canoes on lakes and streams, and lived in villages near waterfalls on major rivers during the seasons when migratory fish could be harvested.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today these people are known collectively as the Abenaki, which is often translated as “People of the Dawnland.” (woban means day-break and ski means earth or land). Abenaki life was observed and recorded by European explorers of the early 1500s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Basic Facts. Eastern Abenaki: Penobscot and Passamaquoddy (two largest tribes), Houlton, Maliseet, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Ossipee, and Pigwacket.