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Show i9oo] EASTERN INDIANS 149 lakes Erie and Ontario, extended down the St. Lawrence River on both banks to about the site of Quebec, and occupied the greater part of New York state and eastern Pennsylvania. A A southern branch of the Iroquois had its seat in eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and parts of Virginia and the Carolinas. \ In the north the westward limit was reached by th^ Blackfoot described above, who, in their adaptation to the environment of the plains, have assumed the culture which is typical of that area. \ The general western limit of the Algonquians was, marked by the Siouan tribes at the Mississippi . Valley.\ The southern barrier was formed by the Muskhogean family in the gulf states and a number of small groups of different affinities along the Atlantic seaboard in Virginia and the Carolinas. In its most northerly extension the Algonquian family is still checked by the Eskimo, who occupy the shore of Labrador and formerly crossed the strait of Belle Isle into Newfoundland. A small and unimportant stock found in Newfoundland and known as the Beothukan is now extinct; little is known of them, but such linguistic evidence as can be obtained points to their independence. ^ In the far north the Cree are the leading tribe of the Algonquian family; while to the south and west of them stretches the large Ojibwa division, broken up into numerous bands, but centring in a general way # about the Great Lakes. In the east |