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  2. Algonquian peoples - Wikipedia

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    At the time of the first European settlements in North America, Algonquian peoples resided in present-day Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, New England, New Jersey, southeastern New York, Delaware, and down the Atlantic Coast to the Upper South, and around the Great Lakes in present-day Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

  3. Algonquin people - Wikipedia

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    Following the American Revolutionary War, and later the War of 1812, the Lake of Two Mountains Algonquins found their territory increasingly encroached on by Loyalist settlers. Beginning in the 1820s and 1930s, the lumber industry began to move up the Ottawa valley. Algonquin became increasingly displaced as a result.

  4. Algonquins of Ontario Settlement Area - Wikipedia

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    The Algonquins of Ontario Settlement Area covers 36,000 square kilometers of land in eastern Ontario.The area is historically unceded land, and is an area with more than 1.2 million people.

  5. Wabanaki Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    Many Abenaki villages faced great losses from the war. The war was then followed by a pandemic known as "The Great Dying" (1616-1619), which killed around 70-95% of the local Algonquin population left after the war. [29] [13] Not long after this widespread local depopulation, Pilgrim settlers from England arrived in November 1620. Algonquin ...

  6. Powhatan - Wikipedia

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    Various tribes each held some individual powers locally, and each had a chief known as a weroance (male) or, more rarely, a weroansqua (female), meaning "commander". [13]As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were recognized by English colonists as falling under the greater authority of the centralized power led by the chiefdom of Powhatan (c. 1545 – c ...

  7. Kichesipirini - Wikipedia

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    They may have been the first Algonquin nation to meet French explorers in the early 17th century. Tessouat (d. 1636), their chief, met Samuel de Champlain in the summer of 1603, and Champlain visited their village again in May 1613. Because of their position on the river, they were able to charge tolls to French traders and missionaries. [3]

  8. Powhatan (Native American leader) - Wikipedia

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    Powhatan (c. 1547 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock, or Wahunsonacock), was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607.

  9. History of Ontario - Wikipedia

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    The history of Ontario covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. The lands that make up present-day Ontario, the most populous province of Canada as of the early 21st century have been inhabited for millennia by groups of Aboriginal people, with French and British exploration and colonization commencing in the 17th century.