1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Algonquin
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|See also Algonquin on Wikipedia; Algonquin at Wiktionary
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Algonquin
|←Algol||1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 1
|See also Algonquin on Wikipedia; Algonquin at Wiktionary; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.|
ALGONQUIN, or ALGONKIN (a word formerly regarded as a French contraction of Algomequin, “those on the other side” of the river, viz. the St Lawrence, but now believed to be from the Micmac algoomaking —“at the place of spearing fish”), a collective term for a number of tribes of North American Indians dwelling in the valley of the Ottawa river and around the northern tributaries of the St Lawrence. The Algonquins allied themselves with the French against the Iroquois. Many were driven west by the latter and later became known as Ottawa. The French missionaries at work among the Algonquins early in the 17th century fou