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The north-eastern area of North America was home to a large number of tribes. Among them are:

  • Abenaki (including the Penobscot)
  • Mi'kmaq
  • Montagnais-Naskapi

The Abenaki people lived in the area that became Maine, the Mi'kmaq were in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island and New Brunswick and the Montagnais were widely spread in many small bands in northern and eastern Quebec (their northern bands were known as Naskapi).

All of these groups spoke distantly-related Algonquian languages and are termed Algonquian tribes.

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