Algonkin
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In her quality of producer she occupies a position in Wintu mythology similar to that of the divine descendant of the earth and the sun in the Algonkin religious system.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
It was chiefly Algonkin tribes with whom the first white settlers met.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
Algonkin, 3, 53, 66, 74, 83, 108 et seq.,
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
The Jesuits' Relations state positively that there was "no one immaterial God recognised by the Algonkin tribes, and that the title 'The Great Manito' was introduced first by themselves in its personal sense."
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
The Algonkin myth in its most extended form describes the earth maiden as becoming a mother through being looked at by the sun.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
In 1700 they were on the Mankato, and constantly roaming with the Western Algonkins.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson
They cut the Algonkins in two, and prevented France from receiving their undivided assistance.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
Now the chief of the Sillery Algonkins, who had been baptised to the name of Jean Baptiste, made a speech of welcome, from the shore.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Of the Algonkins there were three nations who clung together as the Council of the Three Fires.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The bark lodges of the Algonkins were round and peaked like a cone, instead of being long and ridged like those of the Iroquois and Hurons.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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