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| | Vermont Folklife Center | Malian's Song | Additional Resources |
 | | Odanak eventually incorporated a number of Abenaki families from these bands, along with Native refugees from the Massachusetts tribes of –Pocumtuck (“swift, sandy river”), Woronoco (“winding river”), Nonotuck (“in the midst of the river”), Quabaug (“red pond”), and others – who had been forced out of the middle Connecticut River Valley by English colonists. |
 | | Odanak felt like a safe place, since it had a Catholic mission under the protection of the French, and was located far to the north of the English settlements. |
 | | The Abenaki community at Odanak is recognized as a First Nation by the Canadian government, but the Abenaki community at Missisquoi, which has also persisted to the present, has yet to be federally-recognized by the United States government. |
| www.vermontfolklifecenter.org /childrens-books/malians-song/rogers_raid_facts.shtml (5344 words) |
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