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Algonquian Tribal Divisions
A geographic classification of the Algonquian tribes
follows:
Western division,
comprising three groups dwelling along the east slope of the Rocky
Mountains: Blackfoot confederacy, composed of the Siksika, Kainah, and
Piegan; Arapaho and
Cheyenne.
Northern division, the most extensive one,
stretching from the extreme northwest of the Algonquian area to the
extreme east, chiefly north of the St Lawrence and the great lakes,
including several groups which, on account of insufficient knowledge of
their linguistic relations, can only partially be outlined: Chippewa
group, embracing the Cree (?), Ottawa,
Chippewa, and Missisauga; Algonkin
group, comprising the Nipissing, Temiscaming, Abittibi, and Algonkin.
Northeastern division, embracing the tribes
inhabiting East Quebec, the Maritime Provinces, and east Maine: the
Montagnais group, composed of the Nascapee, Montagnais, Mistassin,
Bersiamite, and Papinachois; Abnaki group, comprising the Micmac, Malecite,
Passamaquoddy, Arosaguntacook, Sokoki, Penobscot, and Norridgewock.
Central division, including groups that resided
in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio: Menominee; the Sauk
group, including the Sauk,
Fox, and Kickapoo; Mascouten;
Potawatomi;
Illinois branch of the Miami group, comprising the Peoria, Kaskaskia,
Cahokia, Tamaroa, and Michigamea; Miami branch, composed of the
Miami,
Piankashaw, and
Wea.
Eastern division, embracing all the Algonquian
tribes that lived along the Atlantic coast south of the Abnaki and
including several confederacies and groups, as the Pennacook,
Massachuset,
Wampanoag,
Narraganset, Nipmuc, Montauk, Mohegan, Mahican, Wappinger,
Delawares, Shawnee, Nanticoke, Conoy,
Powhatan, and Pamlico.
Index of Tribes or Nations
Source: Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
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