How to pronounce“abenaki”in English
Laughter encompasses the limits of the soul.” Native humor is often dark, satirical, cheeky, and provocative.
Abenaki writer Joseph Bruchac notes that humor and teasing can be used to remind people that they aren’t better than anyone else.
And writer Tiffany Midge, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux nation, tells the story of laughing with her dying mother when trying to figure out what to do with her remains.
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Definitions of “abenaki”
A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec.
“The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble.”
Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language.
“I am to walk left, westward on the Abenaki trail which I will know by the sapling bent into the earth with one sprout growing skyward.”