Algonquian

Before initial contact (1650), the English, based on reports from Algonquian natives, thought the three tribes were one people, as the Algonquian speakers referred to them by the exonym Mangoag.

It is unknown how the crossover between the languages occurred; some possibilities include direct contact with Algonquian-speaking peoples in Virginia and North Carolina, or perhaps contact with French explorers using the Algonquian language at the time.

Language families Algonquian languages The Ojibwe language and other members of the Algonquian languages distinguish between animate and inanimate classes.

Muir uses archaeological data to argue that the Iroquois expansion onto Algonquian lands was checked by the Algonquian adoption of agriculture.

The Plains Algonquian and the Central Algonquian groups are not genetic groupings but rather areal groupings.

Chatham-Kent Police Service officials allege: Yesterday, officers attended the Algonquian Street area in response to a call of a break and enter.

In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Ultima Thule has been officially named Arrokoth (AR-uh-koth), a Native American term meaning “sky” in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.

Also shown as "Chisupioc" (by John Smith ) and "Chisapeack", in Algonquian "che" means "big" or "great", "sepi" means river, and the "oc" or "ok" ending indicated something (a village, in this case) "at" that feature.

At the time of European arrival in what is now Maine, several Algonquian -speaking peoples inhabited the area.

Because of this, descendants of nearly every southern New England Algonquian tribe can be found among the Abenaki people.

By this scenario, Blackfoot was the first language to branch off, which coincides well with its being the most divergent language of Algonquian.

Calling the red berries Sassamanash, Algonquian peoples may have introduced cranberries to starving English settlers in Massachusetts who incorporated the berries into traditional Thanksgiving feasts.

Etymology The name of the mountains is a translation of an Amerindian name that is closely related to Algonquian ; the Cree name " as-sin-wati ", given as, when seen from across the prairies, they looked like a rocky mass.

Goddard also points out that there is clear evidence for pre-historical contact between Eastern Algonquian and Cree-Montagnais, as well as between Cheyenne and Arapaho-Gros Ventre.

Haddock supposes that certain "Colonial American" moon names were adopted from Algonquian languages (which were formerly spoken in the territory of New England), while others are based in European tradition (e.

He has concluded that the presence of certain Algonquian words in Mobilian Jargon are the result of direct contact between the Mobilians of the Mississippi valley and Algonquins moving southward.

History Etymology of "Pequot" Pequot is an Algonquian word, the meaning of which is in dispute among language specialists.

History seeAlso Map of Rensselaer County in 1829 The area that is now Rensselaer County was inhabited by the Algonquian -speaking Mohican Indian tribe at the time of European encounter.

However, this classification scheme has failed to gain acceptance from other specialists in the Algonquian languages.sfn Instead, the commonly accepted subgrouping scheme is that proposed by Ives Goddard (1994).

In Cheyenne, tone arose via vowel contraction; the long vowels of Proto-Algonquian contracted into high-pitched vowels in Cheyenne while the short vowels became low-pitched.