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The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. [1] Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (including Oji-Cree), Mississaugas, and Nipissing, with whom they form the larger ...
The Beaver Wars (Mohawk: Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (French: Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their ...
Algonquin: Iroquois: Commanders and leaders; Adam Dollard des Ormeaux † Etienne Annahotaha † Mituvemeg † unknown: Strength; 17 French militia 44 Huron warriors 1 fort ~700 warriors 1 fort: Casualties and losses; 54 killed 1 captured (killed later) 1 fort captured: Very Heavy: Both the Iroquois and the French used war-canoes during the ...
Iroquois War (1609) Engraving based on a drawing by Champlain of his 1609 voyage. It depicts a battle between Iroquois and Algonquian tribes near Lake Champlain. Enlarged detail from the center of the engraving "Deffaite des Yroquois au Lac de Champlain," from Champlain's Voyages (1613). This is the only contemporary likeness of the explorer to ...
Central Algonquian peoples. Kickapoo (Kikapú, Kiikaapoa, Kiikaapoi): originally from southeast Michigan and Wisconsin United States; now in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, United States; Coahuila, Mexico. Peoria (Illiniwek), formerly Illinois now Oklahoma. Menominee (kāēyas-mamāceqtaw) of Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, United States.
The Schenectady massacre was an attack against the colonial settlement of Schenectady in the English Province of New York on February 8, 1690. A raiding party of 114 French soldiers and militiamen, accompanied by 96 allied Mohawk and Algonquin warriors, attacked the unguarded community, destroying most of the homes, and killing or capturing most of its inhabitants.
LINCOLN-SUDBURY 4, Waltham 1: Jack Oliveira dished out two assists for the Warriors (6-3-3-) on Tuesday. L-S' Quinn Lemire and Drew Simon each scored their first varsity goals. ... Algonquin 1 ...
The Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca ultimately became allies and provided warriors for the battles in the New York area. The Oneida and Tuscarora sided with the Colonists. The Mohicans, who as Algonquians were not part of the Iroquois Confederacy, sided with the Patriots, serving at the Siege of Boston, and the battles of Saratoga and ...