The interactions of Europeans and Abenakis along the Kennebec were conflicted from the start. When the wars ended the Abenaki Dawnland had clearly become the Eastern District of Massachusetts, known as Maine.
Even with the best of intentions the struggles over who would occupy and use the Kennebec region would have been difficult. But intentions were not always good. Sometimes they were just evil.
What began as episodes of trade, violence and invasion became an existential fight for the Abenaki as English settlements expanded in the Dawnland.