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y intelligible. Unlike the Athabaskan the Algonkin stock is nearly equally divided between the United States and Great Britain. Unlike, too, the Athabaskan, it is divided between the Canadas and our other possessions and the Hudson's Bay territory. The whole of the Canadas, with one small but important exception, the whole of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward's Isle, is Algonkin. Labrador and Newfoundland are chiefly Algonkin. To this stock belonged and belong the extinct and extant Indians of New England, part of New York, part of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, part of the Carolinas, and part of even Kentucky and Tennessee; a point of American rather than of British ethnology, but a point necessary to be noted for the sake of duly appreciating the magnitude of this stock. Amongst others, the Pequods, the Mohicans, the Narragansetts, the Massachuset, the Montaug, the Delaware, the Menomini, the Sauks, the Ottogamis, the Kikkapus, the Potawhotamis, the Illinois, the Miami, the Piankeshaws, the Shawnos, &c. belong to this stock--all within the United States. The British Algonkins are as follows:-- 1. The _Crees_; of which the _Skoffi_ and _Sheshatapush_ of Labrador are branches. 2. The _Ojibways_;[73] falling into-- _a._ The _Ojibways Proper_, of which the _Sauteurs_ are a section. _b._ The _Ottawas_ of the River Ottawa. _c._ The original Indians of Lake _Nipissing_; important because it is believed that the form of speech called _Algonkin_, a term since extended to the whole class, was their particular dialect. They are now either extinct or amalgamated with other tribes. _d._ The _Messisaugis_, to the north of Lake Ontario. 3. The _Micmacs_ of New Brunswick, Gaspe, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and part of Newfoundland; closely allied to the-- 4. _Abnaki_ of Mayne, and the British frontier; represented at present by the _St. John's Indians_. 5. The _Bethuck_--the aborigines of Newfoundland. 6. The _Blackfoots_, consisting of the-- _a._ _Satsikaa_, or _Blackfoots Proper_. _b._ The _Kena_, or _Blood Indians_. _c._ The _Piegan_. To these must be added numerous extinct tribes. _The Iroquois._--The single and important exception to the Algonkin population of the Canadas is made by the existence of certain members of the great Iroquois class on the New York frontier; a class falling into two divisions. The _northern_ Iroquois belong to New York
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