algonquian library

The Algonquian language group includes includes tribes that resided along the Eastern coast of the United States. Tribes such as the Powhatans are included in this group and you can learn about them here.

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Narragansett (or Narraganset) Indiansa tribe of the Algonquian linguistic family. See more »

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Abnaki Indians

Abnaki (or Abenaki ) Indians, a group of related Algonquian-speaking tribes. Originally, they were divided into two branches.

Arapaho Indians

Arapaho Indians a Plains tribe of the Algonquian language family, closely allied with the Cheyennes.

Atsina Indians

Atsina Indians, a branch of the Arapaho tribe of the Algonquian linguistic family.

Blackfeet Indians

Blackfeet Indians, a confederacy of three tribes of the northern plains—the Siksika, or Blackfeet proper; the Bloods, or Kainah; and the Piegans.

Cheyenne Indians

Cheyenne Indians , an important American Plains Indian tribe belonging to the Algonquian language family.

Chippewa Indians

Chippewa (or Ojibway) Indians, a large tribe of the Algonquian language family. When encountered by the French in the 17th century, they lived on the shores of Lakes Huron and Superior, in an area now occupied by parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ontario.

Cree Indians

Cree Indians, a tribe of the Algonquian language group. The Creewere originally a hunting people and roamed from upper Quebec to central Manitoba.

Delaware Indians

Delaware (or Lenni Lenape) Indians , a confederacy of American Indians, at one time the most important of the Algonquian language group.

Fox Indians

Fox Indians, an Algonquian tribe that once lived in Wisconsin around the Fox River and Lake Winnebago.

Illinois Indians

Illinois Indians, a confederation of tribes of the Algonquian language family. The Indians referred to themselves as Illiniwek, meaning “men” or “people”; Illinois was the French spelling of the name.

Kaskaskia Indians

Kaskaskia Indians, a tribe of the Illinois Confederacy, which was of the Algonquian language family.

Kickapoo Indians

Kickapoo Indians a tribe of the Algonquian language family, closely related to the Sauk and Fox tribes.

Mahican Indians

Mahican (or Mohican)Indians, a tribe of the Algonquian language family originally living from south-central Vermont in the north to the upper Hudson Valley eastward to the Housatonic River in the south.

Menominee Indians

Menominee Indiansa tribe of the Algonquian linguistic stock. Throughout historic times, they have occupied parts of northern Wisconsin.

Miami Indians

Miami Indians, a tribe of the Algonquian linguistic stock. They are also called Twightwees, and are usually considered as including the Wea and Piankashaw.

Mohegan Indians

Mohegan Indians a tribe of the Algonquian linguistic stock. Originally the Mohegans lived along the Thames River in Connecticut.

Narraganset Indians

Narragansett (or Narraganset) Indiansa tribe of the Algonquian linguistic family.

Naskapi

Naskapi (or Nascapee) Indians, both, a tribe of Indians of the Algonquian linguistic family, related to the Crees, and closely associated with the Montagnais.