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!
Amikwa (from amik, beaver). An
Algonquian tribe found by the French on the N.
shore of L. Huron, opposite Manitoulin id., where they were located in the
Jesuit Relations at various dates up to 1672. Bacqueville de la Potherie (Hist.
Am. Sept., 1753) says that they and the
Nipissing once inhabited the shores
of L. Nipissing, and that they rendered themselves masters of all the other
nations in those quarters until disease made great havoc among them and the
Iroquois compelled the remainder of the tribe to betake themselves, some to the
French settlements, others to L. Superior and to Green bay of L. Michigan. In
1740 a remnant had retired to Manitoulin id. Chauvignerie, writing in 1736, says
of the Nipissing: "The armorial bearings of this nation are, the heron for the
Achagué or Heron tribe, the beaver for the
Ameko8es [Amikwa], the birch for the Bark tribe. The reference may possibly be
to a gens only of the Nipissing and not to the Amikwa tribe, yet the evidently
close relation between the latter and the Nipissing justifies the belief that
the writer alluded to the Amikwa as known to history. They claimed in 1673 to be
allies of the Nipissing. (J. M. - C. T.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
