Algonkin
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If brought before him, he would doubtless have looked on them much as a certain French Algonkin and Iroquois scholar of Canada looked on the myths of America.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah
They were then numerous and powerful, holding in check the neighboring Algonkin tribes, but soon after an alliance of tribes attacked and very nearly exterminated them.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
The Algonkin force of America was on the French side, but the Iroquois held all water communication between Lake Erie and Ontario, the greatest strategic position on the continent at that period.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah
All the others were of the Algonkin group, just as the French, the Spanish, and the Italians belong to what is called the Latin family, and speak languages which have the same origin.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
In fact, they were the terror of their milder Algonkin neighbors.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
According to their traditions they came eastward from the Pacific, and encountered the Algonkins about the headwaters of the Mississippi, where the mass of them were held in check.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
Dirtier and coarser than any other Algonkins, the Nascopi hunts and fishes for his livelihood exclusively; depending most upon the autumnal migrations of the reindeer; and, next to that, upon his net.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The several tribes of Algonkins found by the French in Canada were only a small portion of those American Indians speaking in the Algonquian tongue.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
Some of the neighboring Algonkins called them Iowas—a name originally applied to a river, and said to mean "the beautiful land"—and others Mascoutin or Prairie Nadouessi.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
All Algonkins were accustomed to draw pictures to record events.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
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