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    Which Indian tribe were called "speakers of an unintelligible language" thus forming the name of their commonly known name?

    Question #77281. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Mar 15 07 12:45 PM)


    quitzallo

    From wikipedia :
    The Maliseet (also known as Wolastoqiyik and Malecite and in French also as Malécites or Étchemins (the latter collectively referring to the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy)) are a Native American/First Nations people who inhabit the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, roughly overlapping the International Boundary between New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and Maine in the United States.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maliseet

    Or from answers.com

    Mal·i·seet (măl'ə-sēt') or Mal·e·cite (-sīt')
    n., pl. Maliseet or -seets or Malecite or -cites.

    A Native American people inhabiting the St. John River valley in New Brunswick and northeast Maine. The Maliseet helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century.
    A member of this people.
    The Algonquian language of the Maliseet.
    [From Micmac malisiit, one who speaks an incomprehensible language.]

    http://www.answers.com/topic/maliseet

    Mar 16 07, 3:50 PM
    tragic_flawed

    It was also the Cherokee Indians

    Mar 26 07, 4:31 PM


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