Languages and peoples. Algonquian languages, a large subfamily of Native American languages in a wide swath of eastern North America from Canada to Virginia . Algonquin language, the language of the Algonquin people in Canada, for which the Algonquian languages group is named; Algonquian peoples, indigenous tribes of North America composed of people who …

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.

Nov 20, 2012 · Tlingit Tribe History The Tlingit were believed to have settled in the region for thousands of years. The first recorded contact by Europeans with the Tlingit people started in 1745 when Russian traders started to explore Alaska. The Russians initiated trade with the Tlingit for sea-otter pelts and other items.

The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is one of 11 Virginia Indian tribes recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the state's first federally recognized tribe, receiving its status in January 2016. Six other Virginia tribes, the Chickahominy, the Eastern Chickahominy, the Upper Mattaponi, the Rappahannock, the Monacan, and the Nansemond, were similarly recognized through the …

In earliest evidence, this word is spelled squuncke.The creature's English name is taken from the one the given it by the Massachusett tribe. Their word, in turn, derived from an Algonquian one whose parts translate as "urinate" and "fox" or "fox-like animal." (Algonquian is a family of Native American languages spoken by peoples from Labrador to Carolina and westward into the Great …

Thus began a journey that, through the joint collaborative efforts of the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Assonet & Herring Pond Wampanoag communities, led to the birth of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project (WLRP), a project that, after more than 150 years of dormancy, is bringing back to life the tribes' sacred privilege and right - our ancestral language.

The Pennacook, also known by the names Penacook and Pennacock, were an Algonquian-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine.They were not a united tribe but a network of politically and culturally allied communities. Penacook was also the name of a specific Native village in what …

The Wampanoag originally spoke Wôpanâak, a dialect of the Massachusett language, which belongs to the Algonquian languages family. [citation needed] The first Bible published in America was a 1663 translation into Wampanoag by missionary John Eliot.He created an orthography which he taught to the Wampanoag. Many became literate, using Wampanoag for letters, …

Pocahontas (US: / ˌ p oʊ k ə ˈ h ɒ n t ə s /, UK: / ˌ p ɒ k-/; born Amonute, known as Matoaka, c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, …

The Croatan are a small Native American ethnic group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina.They might have been a branch of the larger Roanoke people or allied with them. The Croatan historically lived in current Dare County, an area encompassing the Alligator River, Croatan Sound, Roanoke Island, Ocracoke Island, and parts of the Outer Banks, including …