Maliseet (Malecite)
The Maliseet (also spelled Malecite) people live in the northern region of present-day Maine, southern New Brunswick and parts of Quebec. They are one of the four tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy situated in Maine. Culturally and linguistically, they are eastern Algonkian and eastern Abenaki or Wôbanaki. They had early contact with Basque, Breton and Portuguese fishermen, and began trading with the French at Tadoussac in 1603. Samuel de Champlain identified them as Etchemin.