Algonkin
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Indians of the Algonkin tribe named this tree family, and taught the early colonists in Virginia to use for food the ripe nuts of the shagbark and mockernut.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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
Among the Algonkin and Iroquois tribes broad belts or bands of wampum were neatly woven.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
What Ioskeha was to the Iroquois, Michabo or Manibozho was to the Algonkin tribes.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
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
Had the Iroquois been friends of the Algonkins and acted with them, there could have been no doubt of the triumph of France at that juncture.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin
All Algonkins were accustomed to draw pictures to record events.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
Here there was a large village of Algonkins, where the explorer tarried, refreshing his crew and gathering information concerning the "Tribe of the Sea."
From Stories of the Badger State by Reuben Gold Thwaites
These expatiate upon the difference between members of the same class, so as to separate, not only Caribs from Algonkins, or Peruvians from Athabaskans, but Peruvians from Caribs, and Patagonians from Brazilians.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
From here they carried war south clear to the Cherokees of Tennessee, west clear into the land of the Illinois, and north to the Algonkins at Quebec of the lower St. Lawrence River.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
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