Cowasuck

Linguistically and culturally the Cowasuck belonged to the Western Abenaki and the Wabanaki Confederacy. They were Western Abenaki who lived in and around the village of Cowass, which became Newbury, Vermont.

The name Cowasuck comes from the Abenaki word Goasek which means "White Pines Place", an area near Newbury, Vermont. The members of the tribe were called Goasiak (singular: Goasi), which means "the people of the white pines". Coös County, the northernmost county in New Hampshire, derives from the Wôbanakiak word.

The Cowasuck formerly resided on the upper Connecticut River, with the main village of Cowasuck, now Newbury, located in the states of New Hampshire and Vermont. The river valley forest was a mixture of deciduous trees, hemlocks, and white pines, growing on light soils or old fields. The villages were typically set up on the edge of a cliff or terraces, near the alluvial land suitable for growing corn, and with nearby rivers with sufficient water supply All villages were close to a river or lake, which served for fishing and as a travel route. Their wigwams were rectangular, covered with bark, had domed roofs with a hole as a flue for each fire, and had room for several families.

Northeast Woodland Tribal presence of this region existed long before European settlement, as evidenced by a nearly 13,000-year-old Indigenous village found in Keene, New Hampshire demonstrating that Paleo-Indians were present in the region from around the end of the last ice age.