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Maliseet
The Wolastoqiyik, or Maliseet (,〔Erickson, Vincent O. (1978). "Maliseet-Passamaquoddy." In ''Northeast'', ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15 of ''Handbook of North American Indians'', ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 123.〕 also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nations people of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
They are the Indigenous people of the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, and their territory extended across the current borders of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and parts of Maine in the United States. The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, based in Maine, are the federally recognized tribe of Maliseet people in the United States. Today Maliseet people have also migrated to other parts of the world.
==Name==
The people called themselves ''Wolastoqiyik'' after the Wolastoq River at the heart of their territory. ''Wolastoq'' means "Beautiful River". (English colonists later named it as the Saint John River.) ''Wolastoqiyik'' means "People of the Beautiful River," in Maliseet.〔LeSourd, Philip, ed. 2007. ''Tales from Maliseet Country: The Maliseet Texts of Karl V. Teeter,'' Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, p. 17, fnote 4〕 The Maliseet (Malecite) have long been associated with the Saint John River in present-day New Brunswick and Maine. At one time their territory extended as far as the St Lawrence River. Their lands and resources are bounded on the east by Mi'kmaq, and on the west by the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot, who also spoke related Algonquian languages.
The term Maliseet is the exonym by which the Mi'kmaq people referred to this group when speaking to early Europeans. ''Maliseet'' or ''Malesse'jik'' was a Mi'kmaq word meaning "broken talkers", "lazy speakers" or "he speaks badly," by which the Mi'kmaq contrasted the other tribe's language to their own.〔Erickson 1978, pg. 135〕 The ''Wolastoqiyik'' and Mi'kmaq languages are closely related but distinctly different. The Europeans met the Mi'kmaq before the Wolastoqiyik, and adopted their term of ''Malesse'jik'' (transliterated as Malécite in French) for the people, not understanding that it was not their true name. The later English colonists anglicized this term as Maliseet, in another transliteration of sound.
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