Maliseet

(mălˈə-sētˌ) or Mal·e·cite (-sītˌ)

1. a. A Native American people inhabiting the St. John River valley in New Brunswick and northeast Maine. The Maliseet helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century.
   b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Maliseet.