1898-99. | FAMOUS ALGONQUINS ; ALGIC LEGENDS. 285 
PrvGus “AEGONOQUINS; ALGIC’ LEGENDS. 
By JAMES CLELAND HAMILTON, M.A., L.L.B: 
(Read November 26th, 1898.) 
Tribes composing the Algonkian nation. Their origin, places of habitation, language 
and customs. Mississauga chiefs. Chiefs Shinguakongse, Shingwauk and Pegwis. 
J-and-wah-wah, Kow-Croche, the peace-maker, Crowfoot, friend of the white man and 
of civilization. Poundmaker, Mikasto, Pontiac, The Blackbirds—The Mandan, A. J. 
Blackbird, Algic moral precepts, Makadebenessi, J. B. Assikinack, Upper Canada 
College Boys, Francis Assikinack, Kee-Jak, Gitchi Naigou and his pious daughter, 
“principal women” in treaties, Chiefs Sweet-Grass and Mistowasis, Mamongazida, 
Waub-Ojeeg, John M. Johnston and his family. Waub-Ojegg’s battle song. Algic legends 
and Hiawatha myths. Moore's poem. Iroquoisan and Algonkian poetry compared. 
‘“ Peace hath her victories, 
No less renown’d than war.” 
The Algonkian race forms a very considerable portion of the abo- 
rigines of Canada, who number in all about one hundred thousand 
souls. 
Jacques Cartier and Champlain knew our nomad natives under two 
great divisions, the Iroquois or Six Nations, with their cognates, the 
Hurons, Neutrals and Tobacco tribes, and the Algonquins. 
Algonkin, Algonquin, Altenkin, and Algic or Algique are other forms 
of the same word, as given by the early French. 
Of the Algonquins proper, and bearing that name, there are about 
three thousand persons whose reserves are at Golden Lake and in North 
‘Renfrew in the Province of Ontario, and at Desert, Temiscamingue, the 
Districts of St. Maurice and Pontiac and elsewhere in Quebec. The 
Algonquins called themselves O-dush-quah-gummé, meaning people at 
the end of the water. But under the generic term Algonquin are 
included tribes found north of the great lakes from Labrador to the 
Rocky mountains and the river Athabasca, known as Chippewas, 
Ojibways or Saulteaux, Mississaugas, Odah-wahs or Ottawas, Adiron- 
dacs, Montagnais of Labrador, Montagnais du Saguenay, Abenaquis, 
Maskegons, Micmacs, Tétes de Brules of St. Maurice, Menomenées, 
Delawares, Potawahtamees, Crees, Bloods, Piegans and Blackfeet. The 
