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[Before Europeans]

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Our ancestors arrived here several thousand years ago.

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The Wabanaki peoples occupy a vast territory of lakes, rivers and mountains.

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To the south, this territory is bordered by a large body of water that white men call the Atlantic.

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To the north is the Great River and, beyond that, our Algonkian allies and cousins.

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To the east is the land we share with our Mi’kmaq and Malecite brothers,

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while on the other side of the Rivière aux Iroquois, where the sun sets, is the Iroquois Nation.

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The lifeways and ways of thinking of the Iroquois are very different from ours.

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We move about our territory with the changing of the seasons, going from mountains to plateaux, to valleys and to the sea, in order to hunt and fish.

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We plant corn at the beginning of the summer and harvest it in fall.