Algonquin
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History, Canadian History
- Geographical Location: Canada
The Algonquin people, originally from eastern Canada and what would become the northeastern United States, gave their name to the language group of Algonquian speakers. Central Algonquians, including the Ottawas, Potawatomis, and Illinois, were pushed westward to the Great Lakes region by their hereditary Iroquois enemies in the mid-seventeenth century. The Algonquins proper, also enemies of the Iroquois, stayed in areas colonized by both the French and the English. Their tendency to prefer trade and military alliances with the French worked to their advantage, since French colonial...
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