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This article is about the Native American tribe. For other uses see: Algonquin (disambiguation) The Algonquins or '''Algonkins''' are an Aboriginal North America n people speaking Algonquin , an Algonquian language. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe , with whom they form the larger Anishinaabe grouping. The tribe has also given its name to the much larger group of ''--to refer to larger Algonquian grouping). ECONOMY Although theirs was largely a hunting and fishing culture, some Algonkins practiced agriculture and cultivated Corn , Bean s, and Squash , the famous " Three Sisters " of indigenous horticulture. HISTORY They fought the Iroquois due to their rivalry in the fur trade; and formed an alliance with the Montagnais to the east in 1570 . From 1603 they allied themselves with the French under Samuel De Champlain . In 1632 , after Sir David Kirke 's occupation of New France had demonstrated French colonial vulnerability, the French began to trade muskets to the Algonkins and other aboriginal allies. French Jesuit s began to actively seek Algonkin conversions to Roman Catholicism , opening up a bitter divide between traditionalists and converts. Starting in 1721 , many Christian Algonkins began to summer at Oka , a Mohawk settlement near Montreal that was then considered one of the Seven Nations Of Canada . Algonkin warriors continued to fight in alliance with France until the British conquest of Quebec in 1760 . Fighting on behalf of British Crown, the Algonkins took part in the Barry St Leger campaign during the American Revolutionary War . Loyalist settlers began encroaching on Algonkin lands shortly after the Revolution. Later, the Lumber Industry began to move up the Ottawa valley, and the Algonkins were relegated to a string of small reserves. MODERN EVENTS In recent years, tensions with the lumber industry have flared up again among Algonkin communities, in response to the practice of clear-cutting. In Ontario, an ongoing Algonkin land claim has, since 1983 , called into dispute much of the southeastern part of the province, stretching from near North Bay to near Hawkesbury and including Ottawa , Pembroke , and most of Algonquin Provincial Park . In 2000 , Algonkins from Timiskaming First Nation played a significant part in the local popular opposition to the plan to convert Adams Mine into a garbage dump. ALGONKIN COMMUNITIES
These population figures are from Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs . The Nipissing First Nation of North Bay, Ontario is also sometimes considered to belong to the Algonkin group of Anishinaabe g. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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