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Show i 5o BASIS OP AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1600 \ the Micmacs of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are prominent, while in New England a number of tribes of Algonquian lineage, such as the Abnaki, Mohegan, Massachusset, Narraganset, Pequot, Wam-panoag, and others, occupied the territory to the exclusion of all other families. \^ The Mohegan, of the lower Hudson, and the Delaware ( Lenap6), of the Delaware Valley, brought the stock to the region of Chesapeake Bay. In Virginia were the Powhatan and related groups, and in Tennessee the Shawnee marked the southern limit of Algonquian occupation. A branch of the Shawnee is known to have pushed its way as far south as the Savannah River, but \ yas later driven north, where it joined the Delaware, e main tribes of the central Algonquians besides the Ojibwa, mentioned above, were the Sauk and Fox, two tribes originally independent but to- day practically one; the Illinois, Kickapoo, Menominee, Ottawa, Pottawotomi, and numerous others of less importance. x< Fhe Cheyenne and Arapaho, two related tribes of the group, forced their way in the early migrations as far west as the Black Hills of South Dakota, and even into Wyoming and Colorado, where, closed in by Siouan and Shoshonean peoples, they have remained ever since. v . Physically, the Algonquians are among the best of the aborigines, tall and strong, moderately dolichocephalic in head type, with the prominent nose and projecting malar bones which are regarded as characteristic of the American natives. |