Document Type

Poster

Some Reflections on Wabanaki Place Names and the Animacy Place

Authors

University of Maine Native American Programs

Publication Date

4-4-2025

Abstract/ Summary

Wabanaki in the 1600s and 1700s used some place names (and avoided using others) in land sales and treaty negotiations. Do those names show how Wabanaki were still asserting their relationships to particular places, even places that they were supposedly selling?

Repository Citation

University of Maine Native American Programs, "Some Reflections on Wabanaki Place Names and the Animacy Place" (2025). General University of Maine Publications. 3811.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_publications/3811

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