Etchemin was a language of the Algonquian language family spoken in early colonial times on the coast of Maine. The word Etchemin is thought to be either French alteration of an Algonquian word for canoe or a translation of Skidijn the native word for people in used by the inhabitants of the St. John Passamaquoddy and St. Croix Rivers.
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