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| | Native Americans: The Maliseet Indian Tribe (Malecite, Malecites, Skicin, Maliseet Indians) |
 | | The Maliseet live primarily in Canada, especially New Brunswick, with one band across the border in Maine (the US granted official recognition to the Maine tribe in 1980.) Older literature sometimes refers to them as "St. John's Indians," though they never used that term themselves. |
 | | The Maliseet and Passamaquoddy, near relatives and long-time allies who spoke dialects of the same language, banded together against European and Iroquois aggression with their neighbors the Abenakis, Penobscots, and Micmacs. |
 | | Maliseet history is interesting and important, but the Maliseet are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday. |
| www.native-languages.org /maliseet.htm (972 words) |
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