Wabanaki, Wabenaki, Wobanaki, etc. may refer to:

In geography

• area referred as the "Dawn land" by many Algonquian
  Algonquian languages
  The Algonquian languages also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is a...
  
  -speaking peoples to describe the Eastern region of the North American continent, generally described as being New England
  New England
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   in the United States, plus Quebec
  Quebec
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   and the Maritimes
  Maritimes
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   in Canada

In ethnology

• people located in the Wabanaki region, used to mean either "dawn land people" or "easterner."
• people speaking one of the Eastern Algonquian languages
  Eastern Algonquian languages
  The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the Algonquian languages. Prior to European contact, Eastern Algonquian consisted of at least seventeen languages collectively occupying the Atlantic coast of North America and adjacent inland areas, from the Canadian Maritime provinces to...
  
  
• synonym for the Wabanaki Confederacy
  Wabanaki Confederacy
  The Wabanaki Confederacy, as it is known in English, is a historical confederation of five North American Algonquian language speaking Indian tribes....
  
  , a Native American
  Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
  
   alliance located in the northern Wabanaki region
• members of the Wabanaki Confederacy, consisting of:
  • Abenaki
  • Penobscot
  • Maliseet
  • Passamaquoddy
    Passamaquoddy
    The Passamaquoddy are the First Nations people who live in northeastern North America, primarily in Maine and New Brunswick....
    
    
  • Mi'kmaq

In history

• The Wabanaki ancestral homeland stretches from Newfoundland, Canada, to the Merrimack River
  Merrimack River
  The Merrimack River is a river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport...
  
   valley in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Following the European invasion in the early 17th century, this became a hotly contested borderland between colonial New England and French Acadia. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Wabanaki defended their homeland in many bloody wars. During this period, their population was not only radically decimated due to many decades of warfare, but also because of famines and devastating epidemics.

In culture

• the term "Abenaki" is often misused to mean "Wabanaki." Abenakis are just one member of the Wabanakis.
• Camp Wabanaki, a YMCA camp
• Wabanaki Campground in New Hampshire
• Wabanaki Area Scouting, New Brunswick

"Wabanaki" in various indigenous languages

Depending on the literature and the reference language the author/speaker uses, the term "Wabanaki" may be presented in many different ways. In addition, often "Easterner" (literally: "Dawn person") and "Wabanaki" (literally: "Dawn-land person") are used synonymously by some Algonquian language

Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is a...

-speaking groups.

Language	"Easterner(s)" literally "Dawn Person(s)"	"Dawn Land" (nominative)	"Dawn Land" (locative)	"Dawn Land Person"	"Dawn Land People" or the "Wabanaki Confederacy"
Naskapi Naskapi The Naskapi are the indigenous Innu inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of what other Canadians refer to as eastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada....		Waapinuuhch
Massachusett language Massachusett language The Massachusett language was a Native American language, a member of the Algonquian language family. It is also known as Wôpanâak , Natick, and Pokanoket....	Wôpanâ(ak)
Quiripi language Quiripi language Quiripi was an Algonquian language formerly spoken by the the indigenous people of southwestern Connecticut and central Long Island, including the Quinnipiac, Naugatuck, Unquachog, Mattabesic, Potatuck, Weantinock, and Paugussett. It has been effectively extinct since the end of the 18th century,...	Wampano(ak)	Wampanoki
Mi'kmaq Mi'kmaq language The Mi'kmaq language is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 9,100 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States out of a total ethnic Mi'kmaq population of roughly 20,000. The word Mi'kmaq is a plural word meaning 'my friends' ; the adjectival form is Míkmaw...		Wabanahk	Wabanahkik	Wabanahki	Wabanahkiyik
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy	Waponu(wok)	Waponahk	Waponahkik	Waponahkew	Waponahkiyik/Waponahkewiyik
Abenaki-Penobscot Abenaki language The Abenaki language is a dialect continuum within the Eastern Algonquian languages, originally spoken in what is now Vermont, New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts and Maine...	Wôbanu(ok)	Wôbanak	Wôbanakik	Wôbanaki	Wôbanakiak
Algonquin Algonquin language Algonquin is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin First Nations of Quebec and Ontario...	Wàbano(wak)	Wàbanaki	Wàbanakìng	Wàbanakì	Wàbanakìk
Ojibwe	Waabano(wag)	Waabanaki	Waabanakiing	Waabanakii	Waabanakiig/Waabanakiiyag
Odawa	Waabno(wag)	Waabnaki	Waabnakiing	Waabnakii	Waabnakiig/Waabnakiiyag
Potawatomi Potawatomi language Potawatomi is a Central Algonquian language and is spoken around the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as in Kansas in the United States, and in southern Ontario in Canada, 1300 Potawatomi people, all elderly...	Wabno(weg)	Wabneki	Wabnekig	Wabneki	Wabnekiyeg