Missiquoi
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Missiquoi territory within the larger Western Abenaki territory The Missiquoi, or the Missisquoi or the Sokoki (Abenaki: mazipskoi sg., mazipskoiak pl.), were a historic band of Abenaki Indigenous peoples from present-day southern Quebec and formerly in northern Vermont. This Algonquian-speaking group lived along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain at the time of the European incursion. Today, they are part of the Conseil des Abénakis d'Odanak, a First Nation in Quebec.
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thumb|300px|Missiquoi territory within the larger Western Abenaki territory The Missiquoi, or the Missisquoi or the Sokoki (Abenaki: mazipskoi sg., mazipskoiak pl.), were a historic band of Abenaki Indigenous peoples from present-day southern Quebec and formerly in northern Vermont. This Algonquian-speaking group lived along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain at the time of the European incursion. Today, they are part of the Conseil des Abénakis d'Odanak, a First Nation in Quebec.
Missiquoi is also the name of a 17th-century Abenaki village in northern Vermont, for which the sub-tribe was named.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Missiquoi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.