 Other dialects of Eastern Abenaki such as "Caniba" and "Aroosagunticook" are documented in French-language materials from the colonial period.By 2006 five speakers of Western Abenaki were recorded.In "Reflections in Bullough's Pond", historian Diana Muir argues that Abenaki neighbors, the pre-contact Iroquois, were an imperialist, expansionist culture whose cultivation of the corn/beans/squash agricultural complex enabled them to support a large population.