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Wawinak: See Penobscot

"Wawinak" is the name of one of the bands or subgroups of the Penobscot tribe, located in what is now Maine. The name Wawinak (also spelled Wawenock or Wôwinak) means "round island" in the Penobscot language. The Wawinak people were hard-hit by European diseases and merged into other Wabanaki groups of Maine, where their descendants still live today.

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Here are links to our webpages about the Wawinak tribe and language:

Penobscot-Abenaki language
Penobscot tribe
Penobscot culture
Wabanaki legends
Northeastern Woodland
Algonquian languages

Here are a few good books about the Wawinaks and other Abenaki-Penobscot bands of Maine:
Norumbega Reconsidered: Mawooshen and the Wawenoc Diaspora
Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
The Language of Basket Making

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