Including this First Nations tribe located in Maine, how many are linked in a confederation?
Wabanaki Confederacy The Wabanaki Confederacy ("Wabenaki, Wobanaki", translated roughly as "People of the First Light" or "People of the Dawnland") are a First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal nations: the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, and Penobscot.
List of federally recognized tribes There is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States of America. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. s of 17 2017 , 567 Native American tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States.