Algonkin
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Algonkin, 32; Blackfoot, 35; Hunter and bears, 198; Iroquois, 31.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
Far to the west, close against the base of the Rocky Mountains, lived a famous Algonkin tribe—the Blackfeet.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
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 Reuben Gold Thwaites
In California Norwan, daughter of the earth, occupies in part the place of the Algonkin hero, the child of the sun and the earth.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
When these two men were chiefs among the Onondagas, the Mohawks and the Oneidas were much harassed by their Algonkin neighbors, the Mohicans.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
The Iroquois were mortal enemies of the Algonkins, and the feud between these two stocks was the most inveterate and far reaching of any in America.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
“The Algonkins say that birds always make the winds, that they create the waterspouts, and that the clouds are the spreading and agitation of their wings.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
All the tribes of the Algonkins were nomadic, shifting from place to place as the fishing and hunting upon which they depended required.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson
But the Algonkins and Iroquois were mortal enemies; the Algonkins were friendly to the French, the Iroquois to the English.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
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