While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Accominta (possibly related to the Chippewa
ä‛ku‛kŭmiga‛k,
a locative expression referring to the place where land and water meet, hence,
specifically, shore, shore-line. Wm. Jones. The name was given by the
Indians to York r. ).
A small tribe or band of the
Pennacook confederacy, commonly called Agamenticus
or Accominticus, that occupied a village of the same name at or near the site of
the present York, York co., Me., to which the name "Boston" was given on some
early maps. Capt. John Smith (Virginia, II, 183, repr. 1819) says that
the people of this place were allied to those immediately N. of them, and were
subject to the bashabees of Penobscot, which would seem to place them in the
Abnaki confederacy, though they are now generally and apparently correctly
included in the Pennacook confederacy. Schoolcraft (Ind. Tribes, v, 222,
1856) includes this area in the Pennacook dominion. Under what name the
Accominta people were subsequently recognized is not known. (James Mooney, Cyrus Thomas)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
