The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. Historically, the peoples were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and into the interior along the Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes.This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages.

The Algonquian languages (/ æ l ˈ ɡ ɒ ŋ k i ə n / or / æ l ˈ ɡ ɒ ŋ k w i ə n /; also Algonkian) are a subfamily of American indigenous languages that include most languages in the Algic language family.The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Indigenous Ojibwe language (Chippewa), which is a senior …

Native American Homes Wigwam Homes Wigwams (or wetus) are Native American houses used by Algonquian Indians in the woodland regions. Wigwam is the word for "house" in the Abenaki tribe, and wetu is the word for "house" in the Wampanoag tribe. Sometimes they are also known as birchbark houses. Wigwams are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall.

Algonquin, North American Indian tribe of closely related Algonquian-speaking bands originally living in the dense forest regions of the valley of the Ottawa River and its tributaries in present-day Quebec and Ontario, Canada. The tribe should be differentiated from the Algonquian language family, as the latter term refers to a much larger entity composed of at least 24 tribes of …

Powwow is another term with an unsurprising origin. The word is from either of two Native American languages: Narragansett (the word powwaw) or Massachusett (pauwau).Both languages are members of the Algonquian family, the former having been spoken in what is now Rhode Island and the latter having been spoken in what is now Massachusetts. Although these …

Act ually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them. There are around 25 million native speakers of the more than 800 surviving Amerind ...

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Nov 27, 2019 · Nipmuc – Descended from the Algonquian peoples from Massachusetts. The tribe first encountered the colonists of Colonial America in Massachusetts. Smallpox would decimate their population as would their participation in King Philip’s War. Nottoway – A Native American tribe that resided in Virginia and spoke the language of the Iroquois ...

Oct 07, 2019 · Algonquian Tribe. Waban A Native American boy's name that means “East wind.” Apache Tribe. Cochise Cochise means “Renowned warrior chief of the Chiricahua Apache.” It's one of the more powerful Apache names for a little boy. Blackfoot Tribe. Jacy Jacy is a common male Blackfoot name meaning “the moon.” Chinook Tribe. Tyee

Jul 26, 2021 · According to Legends of the Nahanni Valley, a Native author and ethnographer named Basil H. Johnston once described the wendigo in his masterwork The Manitous as such: “The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out over its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its …