ABSTRACT
Abenaki inhabited a region from Lake Champlain on the west to the White Mountains on the east, and from southern Quebec to the Vermont-Massachusetts border. The Western Abenaki are distinguished from their eastern kin, who today largely occupy Maine, by subtle differences in language rather than by distinct geographical boundaries. Today, mostWesternAbenakis live in Odanak (St. Francisl. Quebec, and at Wolinak (Becancour), Quebec, where many of them migrated as refugees during the wars ofthe eighteenth century. As of 1988, two thousand Western Abenaki were also living in Vermont in and around the northern end of Lake Champlain near present day Highgate, St. Albans, and Swanton.
