Overview
The Abenaki, part of the Indians of North America series, explores the lives of these native tribes that have lived for thousands of years in northern New England. Although their first contact with Europeans was peaceful, relations eventually soured as the newcomers seized Abenaki homelands by force or illegal treaty. By the early 20th century, it seemed the tribe's way of life would completely disappear, but then the Abenaki began a political revival that crested in 1980, when they successfully sued the federal government and won a large settlement for their lost homelands
