Tabagie is a Mi'kmaq word, often found in historical descriptions of solemn feasts in Quebec and Maritime Canada.
[1] The term is also found in The Voyages of Samuel De Champlain, as Algonquins prepare to "put to death their prisoners in a festive tabagie".
[citation needed] On 27 May 1603, a solemn tabagie or "feast" held at Tadoussac "reunited the Frenchmen Gravé du Pont and Champlain with the Montagnais, the Algonquins, and the Etchimins," and marked the beginning of an enduring alliance between these peoples.
[2] The term may be derived from tabac (tobacco), which was smoked as an essential element of the ceremony of the feast.
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