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The first Algonquian encountered by the French were the Kitcisìpiriniwak ("Ottawa River Men"; singular: Kitcisìpirini), whose village was located on an island in the Ottawa River; the French called this group La Nation de l'Isle. Algonquin first met Europeans when Samuel de Champlain came upon a party led by the Kitcisìpirini Chief Tessouat ...
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.
Lester Skeesuk, a Narraganset-Mohegan, in traditional regalia. The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut.Today the majority of the people are associated with the Mohegan Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the eastern upper Thames River valley of south-central Connecticut. [1]
Because of this reliance on farming, these tribes did not migrate like the more northern Eastern Woodlands tribes and instead stayed in one place, which resulted in them developing new social and political structures. [6] The Eastern Woodlands tribes located further north (Algonquian-speaking people) relied heavily on hunting to acquire food. [4]
The Wappinger (/ ˈ w ɒ p ɪ n dʒ ər / WOP-in-jər) [3] were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.. At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, but their territory included the east bank of the Hudson in what became both Putnam and ...
The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner"; also: Wabanakia, "Dawnland" [1]) is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.
A discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial mound, shows off a little-known society’s sophistication and deep connections to the Silk Road. Archaeologists Found Stunning ...
The coastal peoples were part of the Algonquian-speaking language family that coalesced into differentiated tribes from present-day New England into the southern states. The historical Patawomeck tribe were loosely allied with the powerful Powhatan Confederacy. They were an agrarian people, who cultivated varieties of maize. They also relied on ...