The Abnakis had five great villages, two amongst the French colonies, which must be the village of St. Joseph or Sillery, and that of St. Francis de Sales, both in Canada, three on the head waters, or along three rivers, between Acadia and New England. These three rivers are the Kennebec, the Androscoggin, and the Saco. ... The nation of the Abnakis bear evident marks of having been an original people in their name, manners, and language. They show a kind of civilization which must be the effect of antiquity, and of a past flourishing age." _E. Vetromile, The Abnaki Indians (Maine Historical Society Collection, volume 6)_. See, also, below: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. {77} For some account of the wars of the Abnakis, with the New England colonies, See CANADA (NEW FRANCE): A. D. 1689-1690, and 1692-1697; NEW ENGLAND: A. D. 1675 (JULY-SEPT.); 1702-1710, 1711-1713; and NOVA SCOTIA: A. D. 1713-1730. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Absarokas, Upsarokas, or Crows. See below: SIOUAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Acawoios. See below: CARIBS AND THEIR KINDRED. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Acolhuas. See MEXICO, A. D. 1325-1502. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Adais. [Footnote: See Note, Appendix E.] These Indians were a "tribe who, according to Dr. Sibley, lived about the year 1800 near the old Spanish fort or mission of Adaize, 'about 40 miles from Natchitoches, below the Yattassees, on a lake called Lac Macdon, which communicates with the division of Red River that passes by Bayou Pierre' [Lewis and Clarke]. A vocabulary of about 250 words is all that remains to us of their language, which according to the collector, Dr. Sibley, 'differs from all others, and is so difficult to speak or understand that no nation can speak ten words of it. ... A recent comparison of this vocabulary by Mr. Gatschet, with several Caddoan dialects, has led to the discovery that a considerable percentage of the Adái words have a more or less remote affinity with Caddoan, and he regards it as a Caddoan dialect." _J. W. Powell, Seventh Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, pages 45-46._ See preceding page. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Adirondacks.