WebHistory. This area was long inhabited by Algonquian-speaking tribes: the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples were loosely affiliated in the Council of Three Fires.As American settlers entered the territory, the Native Americans were pushed to outer areas. The Minnesota Legislature established St. Louis County on February 20, 1855, as …

WebInnu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the community.

WebBetween 1540 and 1542, Hernando de Soto, the Spanish conquistador, traversed what became the southeastern United States.There he encountered many different mound-builder peoples who were perhaps descendants of the great Mississippian culture.De Soto observed people living in fortified towns with lofty mounds and plazas, and surmised that …

WebThe Mississauga are a subtribe of the Anishinaabe-speaking First Nations peoples located in southern Ontario, Canada.They are closely related to the Ojibwe.The name "Mississauga" comes from the Anishinaabe word Misi-zaagiing, meaning "[Those at the] Great River-mouth."It is closely related to the Ojibwe word Misswezahging, which means ‘a river with …

WebNorse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology and stemming from Proto-Germanic …

WebConotocaurius (Town Destroyer, Seneca: Hanödaga꞉nyas) was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois peoples in 1753. The name in its original language(s) has been given variously as Conotocarius, ... It involved members of both the Susquehannah and the Piscataway, an Algonquian tribe that lived across the Potomac River from …

WebThe Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada.They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (including Oji-Cree), Mississauga and Nipissing, with whom they form the larger Anicinàpe …

WebHalkomelem (/ h ɒ l k ə ˈ m eɪ l əm /; Halq̓eméylem in the Upriver dialect, Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ in the Island dialect, and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ in the Downriver dialect) is a language of various First Nations peoples of the British Columbia Coast.It is spoken in what is now British Columbia, ranging from southeastern Vancouver Island from the west shore of Saanich Inlet …

WebHell Town is the name for a Lenape (or Delaware) Native-American village located on Clear Creek near the abandoned town of Newville, in the U.S. state of Ohio. The site is on a high hill just north of the junction of Clear Creek and the Black Fork of the Mohican River.. After the signing of the Treaty of Easton in 1758, the Lenape were required to move west out of …

WebThe Native American tribes in Virginia are the indigenous tribes who currently live or have historically lived in what is now the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America.. All of the Commonwealth of Virginia used to be Virginia Indian territory. Indigenous peoples have occupied the region for at least 12,000 years. Their population has been …

WebThis arose when settlers from the Thirteen Colonies moved onto lands owned by the indigenous inhabitants, a collection of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking peoples, chiefly the Shawnee, Wyandot, Lenape, Miami, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Menominee and Odawa.

WebThe three main groups in the area were the Algonquian, Iroquois, and Siouan peoples. Native American territorial boundaries were extremely fluid during this period, with tribes often sharing territory and moving regularly. Algonquian. There was a large Algonquian population within Maryland prior to European arrival.

WebMayan languages are the descendants of a proto-language called Proto-Mayan or, in Kʼicheʼ Maya, Nabʼee Mayaʼ Tzij ("the old Maya Language"). The Proto-Mayan language is believed to have been spoken in the Cuchumatanes highlands of central Guatemala in an area corresponding roughly to where Qʼanjobalan is spoken today. The earliest proposal …

WebAccording to Anishinaabeg tradition, and from recordings in Wiigwaasabak (birch bark scrolls), the Odawa people came from the eastern areas of North America, or Turtle Island, and from a region called Dawnland along the East Coast (where there are numerous Algonquian-language peoples). Directed by the miigis (luminescent) beings, the …