“Although (Bartholomew) Gosnold had arrived off the coast at what is generally thought to be today’s Cape Porpoise, he did not come ashore there; therefore, if (Martin) Pring sailed into the Kennebunk River (1603), he was the first Englishman of record to come into the confines of what is today Kennebunkport, Maine. Because Pring did not make contact with the people who had made campfires on the shores of the Kennebunk River, he did not know that they called the area Kini-banek (long cut bank) in reference to Great Hill, a promontory at the head of the Mousam River just south of the Kennebunk. He did not know that the indigenous people of northern New England and Canada’s maritime provinces called their homeland Katakamigwa, (the big land on the seacoast). . .These people who homeland was the eastern-most edge of the North American continent where the sun first rises, called themselves Wabanakis (people of the land of dawn). . . Their ancestors had lived in the region for at least 11,000 years.”
Joyce Butler in “Kennebunkport, the Evolution of an American Town