Missiquoi

The Missiquoi (or the Missisquoi or the Sokoki) were a historic band of Abenaki Indigenous peoples from present-day southern Quebec and formerly northern Vermont.

[6] After enduring French and English colonists, the Missisquoi withdrew from areas of conflict during the American Revolutionary War.

[7] Linguist and historian Gordon M. Day wrote, "After this war, the Western Abenakis did not return to any of their former locations in force but rather united or reunited with their brethren at Saint Francis.

[8] The St. Francis-Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi is state-recognized by Vermont[9] and claim to be Missiquoi descendants.

Instead, the PF concluded that the petitioner is a collection of individuals of claimed but undemonstrated Indian ancestry 'with little or no social or historical connection with each other before the early 1970's'...."[6]