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The Abenaki (Abnaki, ''Alnôbak'') are a Native American tribe and a First Nations band government. 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, but as listed below a large number of smaller bands and tribes who shared many cultural traits, and who came together as a post-contact community after their original tribes were decimated by colonization, warfare and disease. ==Name== The word ''Abenaki'', and its syncope, ''Abnaki,'' are both derived from ''Wabanaki'', or ''Wôbanakiak'', meaning "People of the Dawn Land" in the Abenaki language.〔"Abenaki." U *X *L Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. U *X *L. 2008. Retrieved August 14, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3048800002.html〕 However, while the two terms are often confused, the Abenaki are just one of the tribes in the Wabanaki Confederacy. ''Wôbanakiak'' is derived from ''wôban'' ("dawn" or "east") and ''aki'' ("land")〔Snow, Dean R. 1978. "Eastern Abenaki". In ''Northeast'', ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15 of ''Handbook of North American Indians'', ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 137. Cited in Campbell, Lyle (1997). ''American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pg. 401. Campbell uses the spelling ''wabánahki''.〕 (compare Proto-Algonquian '' *wa·pan'' and '' *axkyi'') — the aboriginal name of the area broadly corresponding to New England and the Maritimes. It is sometimes used to refer to all the Algonquian-speaking peoples of the area—Western Abenaki, Eastern Abenaki, Wolastoqiyik-Passamaquoddy, and Mi'kmaq—as a single group.〔 The Abenaki people also call themselves ''Alnôbak'', meaning "Real People" (c.f., Lenape language: ''Lenapek'') and by the autonym ''Alnanbal'', meaning "men".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abenaki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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