Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see Abnaki.
Wikipedia
The Abenaki (Abnaki, Alnôbak) are a Native American tribe and First Nation. They are one of the Algonquian-speaking peoples of northeastern North America. The Abenaki live in Quebec and the Maritimes of Canada and in the New England region of the United States, a region called Wabanahkik ("Dawn Land") in the Eastern Algonquian languages. The Abenaki are one of the five members of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
"Abenaki" is a linguistic and geographic grouping; historically there was not a strong central authority. As listed below, there were numerous smaller bands and tribes who shared many cultural traits. They came together as a post-contact community after their original tribes were decimated by colonization, disease, and warfare.
Usage examples of "abenaki".
Francis became villages of Abenaki Christians, like the village of Iroquois Christians at Saut St.
Hertel continued his retreat to one of the Abenaki villages on the Kennebec.
It was to the effect that an Abenaki Indian had just come over land from Acadia, with news that some of his tribe had captured an English woman near Portsmouth, who told them that a great fleet had sailed from Boston to attack Quebec.
The Abenaki visitors arrived towards the end of April, and were received with all possible distinction.
Attended by a few Indians, he travelled four days and nights, till he found Bigot at an Abenaki fort on the Kennebec.
Chubb succumbed immediately, sounded a parley, and gave up the fort, on condition that he and his men should be protected from the Indians, sent to Boston, and exchanged for French and Abenaki prisoners.
The Marquis de Nesmond, with a powerful squadron of fifteen ships, including some of the best in the royal navy, sailed for Newfoundland, with orders to defeat an English squadron supposed to be there, and then to proceed to the mouth of the Penobscot, where he was to be joined by the Abenaki warriors and fifteen hundred troops from Canada.
Hannah Dustan and the nurse fell to the share of a family consisting of two warriors, three squaws, and seven children, who separated from the rest, and, hunting as they went, moved northward towards an Abenaki village, two hundred and fifty miles distant, probably that of the mission on the Chaudiere.
From where Iain crouched among the trees, he could see no difference between allowing the Abenaki to kill the lass and killing her himself.
Although the main body of the French would likely pursue his men, the Abenaki would be after blood.
The French and Abenaki were running up the hill toward the cover of the rock wall.
A force of more than two hundred French and Abenaki had ambushed them near the site of the attack on the supply train, and Iain and his brothers were pinned down and under fire.
But Lake Champlain was heavy with French ships, not to mention parties of Abenaki and Wyandot.
The third time, a band of Abenaki had appeared on the edge of the forest as if preparing for an attack, and the fort had been called to battle readiness.
McHugh and Cam laughing about the band of Abenaki with Brendan over breakfast.