Wabanaki Tribes

Wapohnakik - Wabanaki Homelands

map in blue & white of Waponahkik homelands. Text on map reads Territory names and all Wabanaki knowledge of place shared in this map is the intellectual and cultural property of Wabanaki Nations. Use of this map is allowed for educational purposes and not to be republished without approval. For further discussion, contact waponahkik-map-group@maine.edu . Map also includes Traditional Knowledge labels indicating "Ma yut monuwasiw/This is not sold" and "Ekehkimkewey/Educational". localcontexts.org/labels"

This map is one representation of Waponahkik, homeland of the people of the dawn: the lands where Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi’kmaq people live, move through, and care for, as they have for time immemorial. This map is incomplete—it is an invitation for further conversation about representation of Wabanaki homelands. Territory names and all Wabanaki knowledge of place shared in this map is the intellectual and cultural property of Wabanaki Nations. Use of this map is allowed for educational purposes and not to be republished without approval. For further discussion, contact waponahkik-map-group@maine.edu.

Map design by Wabanaki community members Nolan Altvater, John Daigle, Tyler Everett, Suzanne Greenlaw, Darren Ranco, Donald Soctomah. Cartography collaboration with Peter Howe and Ella McDonald

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