Penobscot Indians
Attean, one of the two main characters in The Sign of the Beaver, is a member of the Penobscot tribe. In Attean's time, the Penobscot were the principal tribe of the Abnaki confederacy. This confederacy, composed of several tribes, occupied northern New England and what are now the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The Abnaki spoke a form of the Algonquian language and were related by language to other Algonquian people who lived hundred of miles to the west near the Great Lakes.
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