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Algonquian-speaking peoples in North America before European settlement A 1585 sketch of the Algonquian village of Pomeiock near present-day Gibbs Creek in North Carolina. [1] The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American indigenous North American groups, consisting of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages.
The Machapunga were a small Algonquian language–speaking Native American tribe from coastal northeastern North Carolina. [2] They were part of the Secotan people. [3] They were a group from the Powhatan Confederacy who migrated from present-day Virginia.
The Mohicans (/ m oʊ ˈ h iː k ən z / or / m ə ˈ h iː k ən z /) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes, they are related to the neighboring Lenape, whose indigenous territory was to the south as far as the Atlantic coast.
[2] [3] The much larger heterogeneous group of Algonquian-speaking peoples, who, according to Brian Conwell, stretch from Virginia to the Rocky Mountains and north to Hudson Bay, was named after the tribe. Most Algonquins live in Quebec.
The Weapemeoc Indians lived in what is now northeastern North Carolina. [4] In the early 1580s they experienced a dramatic cultural shift with the arrival of European colonizers. [ 4 ] The English established a two-year settlement from 1584 to 1586, and subsequent settlements were established by Spanish, Portuguese and French explorers. [ 5 ]
Distribution of Carolina Algonquian speaking peoples 1657 to 1795 The Secotan remained in the same area until 1644 or 1645, when colonists from Virginia Colony attacked them and drove them off in the last of the Anglo-Powhatan Wars .
The Algic languages (also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan) [1] [2] are an indigenous language family of North America.Most Algic languages belong to the Algonquian subfamily, dispersed over a broad area from the Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Canada.
The Niantic (Nehântick or Nehantucket) are a tribe of Algonquian-speaking American Indians who lived in the area of Connecticut and Rhode Island during the early colonial period. The tribe's name Nehântick means "of long-necked waters"; area residents believe that this refers to the "long neck" or peninsula of land known as Black Point ...