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Shinnecock Tribe

Shinnecock Indians. An Algonquian tribe or band on Long Island, New York, formerly occupying the south coast from Shinnecock Bay to Montauk Point. Many of them joined the Brotherton Indians in New York. About 150 still remain on...

Shawnee Indians

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Shawnee Indian Tribe

Sign Language – Algonkian

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Sign Language Among North American Indians – Algonkian

Algonquian Sign Language among the North American Indians

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Examples of Algonquian Sign Language among the North American Indians

Huron and Algonkin joined Champlain on Expedition

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Huron and Algonkin joined Champlain on Expedition

Algonquian Family

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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...

Pequot Indian War

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The Pequot and their traditional enemies, the Mohegan, were at one time a single socio-political entity. Anthropologists and historians contend that sometime before contact with the Puritan English, the Pequot split into the two...

French and Indian War

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French and Indian War

Iroquoian Peoples resulted in the separation of the Siouan and Algonquian Tribes

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Many of the protected sites may have been constructed and occupied by the Iroquoian tribes during...

Linguistic Groups at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century

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The groups of tribes continued to move, and by the beginning of the sixteenth century they were...

Iroquoian and Muskhogean Tribes after arrival East of the Mississippi

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The fertile valleys of Tennessee and Kentucky present more convincing evidence of having been...

Linguistic Stocks During the Earliest Period Migrations

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Map Intended to Visualize the Position of the Several Linguistic Stocks During the Earliest Period Considered in this page. The Algonquian tribes are believed to have come from the far northwest and to have skirted the shores of the Great Lakes before reaching the country farther south. At their first coining, long before the Iroquoian peoples had arrived in the regions south of the St. Lawrence, some tribes of the Algonquian stock appear to have penetrated far south along the mountains into Tennessee or beyond, while others pushed onward into the piedmont sections of the present Virginia and of the Carolinas.