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Algonquian Indians
Algonquian Indians are the North American Indian tribes originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada and speaking an Algonquian language. Many of these tribes migrated south into the woodlands of the Atlantic coast from the Mississippi River. Algonquian Indians are tribes range from the Cheyennes in the Great Plains to the Naskapi Innu in frigid northern Labrador and from the Yurok in California to the Powhatans in Virginia.
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WHAT ARE COOL ALGONQUIN FACTS?
A fact i found most interesting was that oysters were a treat to Algonquin kids! OYSTAZ
How did the algonquian people travel from place to place?
The word "Algonquian" (with that second "a") refers to a very large language family - it includes languages spoken by tribes across most of North America, including Canada. It follows that these tribes were located in different cultural regions and each had access to different resources. They can not be regarded as all the same.
The Algonkin or Algonquin tribe of the Ottawa river valley in Canada travelled on foot or by canoe; the Cheyenne of the Great Plains travelled by foot or on horses; the Sauk and Fox people of Wisconsin generally travelled entirely on foot. The north woods Cree travelled and hunted for much of the time wearing snowshoes. All of these tribes, and very many more, spoke distantly related Algonquian languages, but lived and travelled in entirely different environments and in different ways. Every tribe was different.
The Cree people are a tribe of Plains Native Americans who live in a wide range in the northern part North America, extending from Ontario to Saskatchewan, Canada and even down into some parts of Montana. They dwelt in these areas for thousands of years, and continue to live here, on and off reservations, today.
The Cree have very strong beliefs when it comes to both the spiritual and natural world. They believe that "Manitow" (Creator, God, Great Spirit), created the earth and everything in it, all of the living creatures as well as the natural and elemental forces and objects. They believe that everything on earth has a Spirit which Manitow has put inside of the creature or thing. They believe that humans and animals have a Spirit, but that other things such as rivers, lakes, plants, and even rocks have a Spirit as well. All of these things, they believe, are a part of the circle of life, the process of things being born or created, reaching maturity, experiencing physical death, and then traveling to the Spirit world with the other Spirits that have also passed through. In this way, even though death is inevitable, painful, and sorrowful, this belief makes it easier for the Cree people to, in a timely manner, mourn, heal, and have joy for their friend or relative who is now in the Spirit world with their ancestors.
Cree Native Americans also use different plants and herbal medicines such as sage, sweet grass, and tobacco. Though each one is used differently, these three iconic and traditional herbs are burned in different ways and used for healing and purification. Sage and sweet grass can be burned in ones home to purify it as well as to ward off evil Spirits and toxic emotions. Tobacco, however, is either wrapped in corn husk, rolling paper, or put in a pipe and smoked. In this way, a person smokes the tobacco, and with gestures toward the four directions and the sky, offers it to the natural world and the Creator as an offering. These herbs or "medicines," especially tobacco, are excellent for clearing the mind and aiding in mental, spiritual, as well as physical health.
How do you say thank you in Algonquin?
All native Americans historically preferred to show appreciation, regret, agreement and so on, rather than saying the words.
In Ojibwe/Chippewa/Ojibwa/Anishinaabemowin the word miigwetch or migwetch (with a long or short first vowel) is used more today than it was traditionally, as a result of white influence.
Miigwetch means "it is too much" and is used for "thanks".
An alternative is ni-mamooyawendam (I am thankful).
What is the Siksika translation for love?
Ne stoa pinnan je ah-eene. (Directly translated meaning - we one heart)
What is wrong with today's families?
I think there's nothing wrong with today's families but the way it's setup andd overly protections we give to the extend that we don't imbibe moral values and make sure we abide by it.
Interestingly, yesterday's family set and observed standards without
but(s) or if(s). With time, we have allowed mordenity (outside adherence to values) to ccrop into our family setup.
It's either we knew and failed to arrest it (overlooked) or we are ignorant. Coverteousness and unneccessary competitions are also weapons of mass family destruction.
Parents are forced both to work to afford things, and one is not at home, someone is always running somewhere, that's why children are in daycare.
Because of this, discipline lacks, parents tire especially after working all day, getting dinner and chores, hardly any time for play or relaxation, and to relax most times its the TV who influences our children.
parents who cannot say NO!! When the children are grown, after high school, they need to find a job and get some responsibilty and not depend on their parents to support them, there is quite alot of this now, it was not like this back in the 50's or 60's, I think most young adults 18-19 yrs now are getting lazy, not all of them but I'd guess at 50% I could be wrong.
It seems nobody pays attention anymore, at the stores etc, have you noticed this, its like, years ago it was not like this, you cared what you were doing.
I find most children are not disciplined at stores and malls
The thing of say you are sorry anyway when you were the one not doing something bad I do not believe in.
The illegal drugs do not help either, the gangs.
What is the Algonquin translation for the Wampanoag-given name Big Fish?
In the Wampanoag dialect of the Algonquian language family (also called Massachusett, Wôpanâak or Natick), the term for "fish" in general appears to be nammos, plural nammask. This would correspond with the general Algonquian word nam-, "fish".
The Wampanoag word for big, large or great is massa-, missi- or mishe- as a prefix, so Big Fish would be massanammos.
What did the algonquins do for art and crafts?
the algonquins used there hand and boobs to do there art
Why did Algonquins move villages into the forest for the winter?
they were close to trees for fuel and had animals to hunt.
Connecticut. You have clearly been looking at the misinformation provided on a widely-used but wildly inaccurate website (Wikipedia).
The name is a corrupted white American version of the Mohegan place name made up of the elements quni-(long) + áhsit (river) + uk (at).
How do you say nightmare in Algonquin?
In the Algonquin language of Canada the tern for a nightmare is nikinekgowin.
What material did the Algonquins use for snowshoes?
Snowshoes (aagimag) made by the Algonquin and their close relatives the Ojibwe had a distinctive shape with long nose and tail sections, but those made for women had a rounded nose. Ash wood was cut and while still green it was bent carefully into shape, then two cross-pieces (the okwiik and sagaakimehigan) were fitted.
The netting was made of thin strips of rawhide (babiish) woven together in different arrangements.
Incidentally, the plural -ag ending on the Algonquin word for snowshoes (aagimag) indicates that they are classified as "animate" or living things, just like people and animals - presumably because the materials come from trees and animal skins.
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What is the Algonquin word for hunter?
The Algonquin (Omàmiwininì) language has many words for "to hunt" and "hunter", depending on exactly what is being hunted. A general word for a hunter is giiwosewinini or nendawenjiged.
What city in Illinois whose name comes from an Algonquin word meaning garlic field?
No city in Illinois has a name from Algonquin - that language is only spoken by the Algonquin tribe of Canada. Chicago is named from the Miami (not Algonquin) word chicagoua, meaning the wild native garlic plant (Allium tricoccum) - there is nothing in the word that represents "field", so it definitely does not mean "garlic field", simply "wild garlic".
It is claimed that the Miami word also signifies "skunk", but this is given as shikakwa in modern sources.
Women wear long dresses with remove able sleeves the men wore breech clothing and leggings. For shoes they wear moccasins. cloaks are worn and Mohawk head dresses Sioux and tribal tattoos
What transportation did the algonquians use?
If you mean the eastern woodland Algonquian tribes, for short journeys people walked and carried the things they needed - women could carry very heavy loads on their backs with a "tumpline" or strap passing around their foreheads.
For longer journeys everything would be packed into canoes.
There were also Algonquian tribes on the Great Plains (including Blackfoot, Cheyenne and Arapaho) who used horses and "drags" or travois constructed from tipi poles to carry all their belongings.
What does the word Massachusetts mean in algonquin?
The language of the Massachusett and Wampanoag tribes is known as Natick; this language is extinct but fortunately it was comprehensively recorded by many early settlers and later historians and linguists.
Mass is a poor attempt by white settlers to pronounce Natick missi, mishe, misheu or missiyeu, all meaning "large or great". The second element is wadchu, meaning mountain or large hill; the final element is probably a word for people, or it could simply mean "place". Perhaps the original native word was really *mishewadchuset.
So: (people) at the great hill (country).
Why is the name redskins offensive to American Indians?
Because Indians are known as red-skinned people.
