 In 2006, the state of Vermont officially recognized the Abenaki as a people, but not a tribe.The state noted that many Abenaki had been assimilated, and only small remnants remained on reservations during and after the French and Indian War, later eugenics projects further decimated the Abenaki people of America through forced sterilization and questionable 'miscarriages' at birth.As noted above, facing annihilation, many Abenaki had begun emigrating to Canada, then under French control, around 1669.