1676 - Formation of the Wabanaki Confederacy

A political alliance comprised of five Indigenous nations in North-Eastern North America, the Mi’kmaq, Penobscot, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), Abenaki, and Passamaquoddy peoples.

Costa, Andrew. “Interrelated Treaty Orders across the Generations: Autonomy, Obligation and Confederacy in the ‘Wabanaki Compact’ (1725-26).” The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 35 (August 2018): 463–85.