While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Early in the seventeenth century, the Algonkin were the largest family of North
American Indians within the present limits of the United States, extending from
Newfoundland to the Mississippi, and from the waters of the Ohio to Hudson's Bay
and Lake Winnipeg. Northeast and northwest of them were the Eskimos and the
Athabasca; the Dakotas bounded them on the west, and the Mobilian tribes,
Catawba, Natchez, &c., on the south. Within this region also dwelt the Iroquois
and many detached tribes from other families. All the tribes of the Algonkin
were nomadic, shifting from place to place as the fishing and hunting upon which
they depended required. There has been some difficulty in properly locating the
tribe from which the family has taken its name, but it is generally believed
they lived on the Ottawa River, in Canada, where they were nearly exterminated
by their enemies, the Iroquois. The only remnant of the tribe at this time is at
the Lake of the Two Mountains.
Of the large number of tribes forming this family, many are now extinct, others
so reduced and merged into neighboring tribes as to be lost, while nearly all of
the rest have been re moved far from their original hunting-grounds. The Lenni
Lenape, from the Delaware, are now leading a civilized life far out on the great
plains west of the Missouri, and with them are the Shawnees from the south and
the once powerful Pottawattamie, Ottawa, and Miami from the Ohio Valley. Of the
many nations forming this great family, we have a very full representation in
the following catalogue, about equally divided between the wild hunters and the
civilized agriculturists.
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
