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Show CHAPTER X NORTHERN TRIBES OF THE EASTERN WOOD-LANDS ( i600- 1900) WITH a few unimportant ( exceptions, the tribes of the ^ lorthoaot were of one or other of two linguistic families, the ftlflonqyian^ and the jroquoian. ^ he former occupied by far the greater territory, and in the history of the United States played decidedly the more important rdle. \ The Algonquian stock~ stretched from the Athapascan frontier in British America around the southern shore of Htnchon Bay^ included the^ interior of Labrador, and sweeping south covered the territory of the Great Lakes and - all- the eastern part of Canada and the eastern states as far south as Tennessee. Its most westerly extension is the Blackfoot tribe, which lies along the base of the Rocky Mountains * t about the % ty- ninth f$ x$ XLtl, and is isolated by a body of Siouan peoples on its eastern border. The most considerable break in the continuity of this Algonquian occupation was made by the strong and important Iroquoian tribes who surrounded 148 |