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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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Did the Algonquins play lacrosse?
the algonquins did not play lacrosse, they played games like snowsnake where you would pack
down the snow on a long, level strip of ground. Each player slid a stick along the ground, taking turns. The one who slid the stick the farthest was the winner.
Corn, beans, and wheat. they also gathered roots, berries and nuts. They hunted animals like beaver, deer, moose, bears, and caribou.
How were the Inuit and the Algonquin alike?
It is not the Inuit that are very similar to the Navajo it is the Dene of the Northwest Territories in Canada. They share a similar language and customs and they do look very much like the same people.
How did the algonquin Indians tribe adapted their environment?
by using their environment to make tools and sheltar by using their environment to make tools and sheltar
Algonquian moved their village into the forest when winter arrived?
Because they want to move from winter villages.
How did the algonquians make wigwams?
The Delaware (or more correctly the Lenape) lived in two types of home - one was the wigwam, a round relatively small home for one family, and the second a longhouse which was larger and built for communal living or extended family use. About 20 or 30 families could live together in a longhouse.
These two types served the purpose of being a permanent home in a community located close to hunting and agricultural tasks. Other similar structures served as sweat lodges and council chambers
All the buildings were made young tees bent to shape covered with woven mats of bark and grasses
The advantages and purposes were several:
- the sweat lodges (like a steam bath) were used for treating diseases and injury
- the council chamber was for the elders to meet
- the wigwams and longhouses were a place to cook and sleep
- men and women could perform there tasks like tool and clothing manufacture in comfort
- the building served as a warm place to live in th cold weather
- they also allowed the community to be together for singing and story telling
How did the Algonquin tribe make decisions?
They sat in a circle and used consensus to solve common issues that people had. This group was called the Grande Councile. The people who sat in the circles were whoever owned the house they lived in. You had to be an adult citizen to make decisions.
There was a Fleir, who decided who's turn it was to speak, and was allowed to discipline people for bad reasons and comments. Discipline included slaps and punches, and have sometimes led to deadly fistfights and even wars.
That is one of the spellings of Algonquian, also Algonquin, usually for the specific tribe or places and ships named for them. The language is almost always spelled Algonquian.
Translation of quebec in algonquin?
The name Quebec means "Place where the River Narrows" And was first spelled "Kebec."
Did the Algonquins live in longhouses?
The Pequot, Native Americans that inhabited in Connecticut, lived in villages that were made up of longhouses and wigwams. Longhouses were made of wood and could accommodate many people. These people hunted, farmed, and fished for food.
What region did the algonquin tribe live in?
The relatively small Algonquin or Algonkin tribe of Canada were historically located mainly in southern Quebec and eastern Ontario in many separate and unconnected bands, each with its own chief. Their main area was along the St Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, but they were pushed westwards by the Iroquois, with whom they constantly waged fierce warfare.
They called themselves Omàmiwinini or Anishinabegand spoke a language closely related to that of the Ojibwe (who also refer to themselves as Anishinaabe (which refers to a tribal ancestor figure being lowered to earth by the Great Spirit).
By the 1600s their population had decreased to around 3,000 from an estimated pre-contact figure of 125,000. Today there are around 8,000 in at least 7 different communities and much effort is being made to preserve their native language and culture.
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.
What games and other pastimes did the algonquin people enjoy?
Algonquin Games Algonquin Indians played games like hunt the button, shinny, ball games, walk on stilts, cats cradle, and web weaving.
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From the web address http://library.thinkquest.org/6299/algon.htm
Where is the Algonquin tribe today?
There has never been an Algonquian tribe.
The second "a" in Algonquian makes it an adjective, meaning "like the Algonkin" - a small tribe who have always lived in the Ottawa valley between Ontario and Quebec.
Algonquian refers to a huge family of different but related languages spoken over a very wide area of the USA and Canada, all of them distantly related to the language spoken by the Algonkin. The Algonquians include the Cheyenne, Blackfoot and Arapaho of the Great Plains; the Illinois, Sac, Fox and Cree further east; the Ojibwa, Potawatomi and Ottawa north of the Great Lakes and the Shawnee, Delaware, Abanaki, Powhatan, Mahican, Massachusset, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Wappinger and many, many more tribes living along the east coast.
