Pequawket
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The Pequawket (also Pigwacket and many other spelling variants, from Eastern Abenaki apíkwahki, "land of hollows")[1] are a Native American subdivision of the Abenaki people who formerly lived near the headwaters of the Saco River in Carroll County, New Hampshire and Oxford County, Maine. Pequawket is also the Abenaki name for Fryeburg, Maine, and the Abenaki name for Kearsarge North.
See also
- Battle of Pequawket
- Pequawket Brook
- Nescambious - a well-known Pequawket chief in the 18th century
Notes
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- Snow, Dean R. (1978). "Eastern Abenaki." In Northeast, ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15 of Handbook of Native Americans, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 137–147
- ↑ Snow 1978, pg. 146
