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That was easily decided by:

  • Their specific language. A native speaking Seneca, for example, was Iroquoian; a native speaking Ojibwe or Mahican was Algonquian.
  • The tribe they belonged to. All the tribes ruled by Powhatan in the Virginia tidewater country were Algonquian, but their neighbours to the north - the Susquehanna - were Iroquoian.
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