What did the Europeans call the Abenaki native Americans?

Question

I'm doing a project on the Abenaki Indians and Ive look everywhere for what the English settlers and the Europeans called them and i cant find the answer. Ive seen a lot of Wabenaki but that doesn't seen right.

Answer 1

Although the previous poster is correct about the Algonquian tribes/language, I believe the European settlers referred to them as natives or, incorrectly, Indians, which as we know started when Columbus called them Indians because he thought he had landed in India.

Answer 2

I think the Europeans grouped all Natives by language and referred to the Abenaki as being Algonquian.  

I am Creek, but most only know us as Muskogee (the language we spoke) who also include: Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Alabama, Koasati, Apalachee, and Hitchiti-Mikasuki. All speak different dialects of the same language, but it is the same language none the less.

Answer 3

Abenaki (Abanaki, Abenakis, Alnôbak)

http://www.native-languages.org/abenaki....

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