Algonkin
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In fact, they were the terror of their milder Algonkin neighbors.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
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
The great Algonkin sun and earth myth which has many variants and vast wealth of detail, describes those relations more profoundly and broadly than any other Indian myth devoted to the same subject.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah
This Algonkin myth is one of the most beautiful and significant, not among creation, but among action myths.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah
It was chiefly Algonkin tribes with whom the first white settlers met.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
Concerning the primal mythical beings of the great hunter and warrior tribes of America, Algonkins, Hurons and Iroquois, something has already been said in the chapter on "Myths of the Origin of Things".
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
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 Curtin, Jeremiah
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 Jackson, W. H.
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)
Among the Iroquois and some eastern Algonkins, they used, as we shall see, wampum belts to help remember the details of treaties or of important events.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
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