Norridgewock
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The Norridgewock were a band of the Abenaki ("People of the Dawn") Native Americans/First Nations, an Eastern Algonquian tribe of the United States and Canada. These people occupied an area to the west and northwest of the Penawapskewi (or Penobscot) tribe, which was located on the western bank of what is now known as the Penobscot River in the U.S. State of Maine.
The principal encampment of the Norridgewock band was at a place where there is now a town also called Norridgewock, on Maine's Kennebec River. There, in 1724, English forces massacred eighty Abenaki women and children, and their French missionary, Father Sébastien Rale (also spelled "Rasle"). After this tragic event, most of the Norridgewock band left the area and relocated to St. Francis and Bécancour in what is now known as Québec.
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