FDI - Algonkin

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Algonkin

*Ethnie:*	ALGONKIN
*Language Group:*	Ojibwan
*Family:*	Central Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands

The Algonkin were a woodland nation that attached themselves to the French at an early date. They primarily occupied the drainage of the upper Ottawa River in Quebec and extending into Ontario. Many joined the Ottawa as a result hostilities with the French and Iroquois. The tribe suffered severely from smallpox.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

ON	Abitibi, Dumoine, Sagaiguninini
PQ	Barrière, Kichesipirini, Kipawa, Lac des Quinze, Maniwaki, Ononchataronon, Timiskaming, Weskarini

Present Locations

ON	Algonquians of Golden Lake, Golden Lake
PQ	Barriere Lakew Band, Rapid Lake
	Kipawa Band, Timiscaming
	Lac Simon Band, Lac Simon via Louvicourt
	Long Point First Nation, Winneway River via LaForce
	River Desert Band, Maniwaki
	Timiscaming Band, Timiscaming
	Wolf Lake, L'Etang via Timiscaming

Year	*History*
1605	Met Champlain
1609	Began trading with Champlain drawing the French into an inter-tribal war with Iroquois
1610	Algonkin and armed French allies drove the Iroquois south of the St. Lawrence
1632	Iroquois drove Algonkin and Montagnais-Naskapi from upper St. Lawrence
1634	Smallpox epidemic
1642	Driven from upper St. Lawrence by Iroquois; French post established at Montreal
1647	Kichesipirini band nearly exterminated by Iroquois
1667	Arrival of French troops brought lasting peace
1700	Attacks by Iroquois, fled territories
1760	Treaty with British
1774	Quebec Act established territories
1776	Thousands of British loyalists settled in territories
1783	British purchased land from ethnie
1812	Fought beside British in War (1812-1814)
1822	Sold most of holdings in Ottawa Valley
1903	Cobalt silver strike attracted miners to territories

Year	Total Population	ON	PQ	Source
1600	6,000			Mooney estimate
1700	6,000	600	5,400	NAHDB calculation
1800	4,000	400	3,600	NAHDB calculation
1884	3,874			Per Quebec Province
1900	1,536			Per Quebec Province
1900	1,500	150	1,350	NAHDB calculation
2000	6,000	1,200	4,800	NAHDB calculation
2005	6,239	1,244	4,995	Indian Life Online

Other speakers of the same language:

Chippewa, Ottawa, Potawatomi

Algonkin Sites:

Algonkin http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Algonkin.html

Algonkin Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t127

Algonkin History http://www.tolatsga.org/alg.html

Algonkin Indians Of Cananda http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/Algonkin.htm

Algonkin Language http://www.native-languages.org/algonquin.htm

Algonquians of Barriere Lake http://www.peacebrigades.org/nap/nap96-02.html

Algonquians of Golden Lake http://www.hilaroad.com/camp/nation/goldlake.html

Chippewa Languages http://www.native-languages.org/chippewa.htm

Eagle Village First Nation http://evfn.ca/

Kipawa History http://www.kipawa.com/kipawag.htm

Long Point First Nation http://www.anishinabenation.ca/eng/comm_longpoint_en.htm

Long Point Winneway http://www.algonquinnation.ca/ancom/longpoint.html

Ojibwa Languages:

Timiscaming Band http://www.municipalite.notre-dame-du-nord.qc.ca/en/TimiskamingBand.html

Timiscaming History: Surrendering Reserve Land to the Settlers http://www.algonquinnation.ca/timiskaming/surrender.html

Timiscaming's History http://www.rootsweb.com/~ontemisk/history.html