Abenaki

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1. A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec.First known use early 18th century

   The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble.

   2000, Jan Albers, Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 57

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1. A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot).First known use early 20th century
2. The Western Abenaki language.

   The manuscript was written in 1750 by Father Joseph Aubery, a Jesuit priest from France assigned to the Saint-François-de-Sales Roman Catholic mission from 1709 until he died in 1756. It's one of the few and earliest documents available in Aln8ba8dwaw8gan, the Abenaki language.

   2019 July 20, Ka’nhehsí:io Deer, “Restoration of 18th-century choir book in Abenaki language may help revitalization efforts”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2022

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1. not comparableRelated or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language.First known use early 19th century

   I am to walk left, westward on the Abenaki trail which I will know by the sapling bent into the earth with one sprout growing skyward.

   2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 37