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When did the Abnaki leave?

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After a series of bloody conflicts with British colonists in the late 17th and 18th cent. (see French and Indian Wars ), the Abnaki and related tribes (the Malecite, the Micmac, the Passamaquoddy, the Pennacook, the Penobscot, and others) withdrew into Canada, where they received protection from the French.

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