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Dawnland
Dawnland meaning
A real or mythical place where the dawn first breaks and the day begins, from a given perspective or frame of reference. | New England, in Native American (especially Abenaki) contexts. (Sometimes particularly with regard to it being the homeland of the Abenaki, and thus sometimes functionally meaning "Abenaki". Occasionally uncapitalized: dawnland.) | Japan.
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The Wabanaki territory, also known as the Dawnland, is home to the five nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
A screen shot from “Dawnland” showing a father and child on Indian Island.
Non-fiction Letters and other non-fiction writing can be found in the anthology Dawnland Voices.