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Language Word Notes Eastern Algonquian Proto-Eastern Algonquian *sākimāw: theoretical reconstruction Narragansett: sâchim: anglicized as sachem [10] Lenape: sakima: derived from earlier form sakimaw [11] Eastern Abnaki: sakəma: anglicized as sagamore [10] Mi'kmaq: saqamaw: Ninigret: Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sakom [12] Western Abnaki: sôgmô ...
Tessouat (Anishinaabe: Tesswehas) (c. ??? – 1636–1654) was an Algonquin chief from the Kitchesipirini nation ("Kitche"=Great, "sipi"=river, "rini"=people: the people from the great river, the Ottawa River). His nation lived in an area extending from Lake of Two Mountains to modern-day Pembroke, Ontario.
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The Carolina Algonquian language is now extinct, and the communities in which it flourished are gone. However, a number of Eastern Algonquian loan words have survived by being absorbed into the English language. Among them are: moccasin, moose, opossum, papoose, pecan, raccoon, skunk, squash, squaw, and wigwam. [citation needed]
They may have been the first Algonquin nation to meet French explorers in the early 17th century. Tessouat (d. 1636), their chief, met Samuel de Champlain in the summer of 1603, and Champlain visited their village again in May 1613. Because of their position on the river, they were able to charge tolls to French traders and missionaries. [3]
A Potawatomi chief named Mucktypoke ... "Big Foot") at Lake Geneva; ... is a Central Algonquian language and is spoken around the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Gros Ventres are believed to have lived in the western Great Lakes region 3,000 years ago, where they lived an agrarian lifestyle, cultivating maize. [8] With the ancestors of the Arapaho, they formed a single Algonquian-speaking people who lived along the Red River Valley in present-day Minnesota and North Dakota. [8]
Manitou (/ ˈ m æ n ɪ t uː /) is the spiritual and fundamental life force in the theologies of Algonquian peoples. It is omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc. [1] Aashaa monetoo means "good spirit", while otshee monetoo means "bad spirit".