Maliseet people

The Wolastoqiyik, or Maliseet (English pronunciation: /ˈmæləˌsiːt/, also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy. They are the Indigenous people of the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, and their territory extends across the current borders of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and parts of Maine in the United States. The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, based on the Meduxnekeag River in the Maine portion of their traditional homeland, are since 19, July, 1776, the first "foreign" Treaty allies with the United States of America and a federally recognized tribe of Maliseet people by the United States. Today Maliseet people have also migrated to other parts of the world. Maliseets are forest, river and coastal people within their 20,000,000 acre, 200 mile wide, and 600 mile long Saint John river watershed homeland.

The people call themselves Wolastoqiyik after the Wolastoq River at the heart of their expansive territory. Wolastoq means "Beautiful River". (English colonists later named it as the Saint John River.) Wolastoqiyik means "People of the Beautiful River," in Maliseet. The Maliseet (Malecite) have long been associated with the Saint John River in present-day New Brunswick and Maine. Their territory still extends as far as the St Lawrence River. Their lands and resources are bounded on the east by the Mi'kmaq, on the west by the Penobscot, and on the south by the Passamquoddy, who also still speak related Algonquian languages.

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