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!
Bersiamite. One of the small
Algonquian tribes composing the eastern group of the
Montagnais, inhabiting the banks of Bersimis r. , which enters St Lawrence
r. near the gulf. These Indians became known to the French at an early date, and
being of a peaceable and tractable disposition, were soon brought under the
influence of the missionaries. They were accustomed to assemble once a year with
cognate tribes at Tadoussac for the purpose of trade, but these have melted away
under the influence of civilization. A trading post called Bersimis, at the
mouth of Bersimis r., had in 1902 some 405 Indians attached to it, but whether
any of them were Bersiamite is not stated, (J. M. )
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
