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.

Featured Article: 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. See more »

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Ottawa Indians

Ottawa Indians, a tribe of the Algonquian linguistic group, closely related to the Chippewa and Potawatomi.

Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians

Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians, two major tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abnaki Confederacy.

Peoria Indians

Peoria Indians, a tribe of the Illinois confederacy belonging to the Algonquian language family.

Pequot Indians

Pequot Indians, a tribe of the Algonquian language family. They lived in Connecticut, east of the Connecticut River.

Potawaomi Indians

Potawatomi Indians, a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian language family.

Powhatan Indians

Powhatan Indians, a small tribe inhabiting tidewater Virginia in early colonial times.

Sac Indians

Sac (or Sauk) Indians, a tribe of the Algonquian linguistic family, closely related to the Fox and Kickapoo tribes.

Shawnee Indians

Shawnee Indians, a North American tribe of the Algonquian language family. “Shawnee” is from an Indian word meaning “southerners.” When the Shawnees were first seen by Europeans in the 17th century, they lived along the Cumberland River in what is now Tennessee and numbered about 3,000.

Wampanoag Indians

Wampanoag, a tribe of Indians of the Algonquian language family. They lived between Narrangansett Bay and the Atlantic, south of the Massachuset Confederacy.