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of Indians, differing radically from each other in their 
speech, and slightly in their physical characteristics. 
These were called by the French the Algonquin and 
Iroquois families. Our old New England acquaintances 
—the Pequods, Narragansetts, Mohegans, and Abe- 
nakis — were all Algonquins. The Delawares, who 
lived in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, were 
also Algonquins. So were the Shawnees of the Ohio, 
the Miamis of the Wabash, the Illinois, the Kickapoos 
of southern Wisconsin, the Pottawatomies and Ojib- 
was of Michigan, and the Ottawas of Michigan and 
Upper Canada. Lower Canada and Acadia were also 
inhabited by Algonquin tribes. In the central portion 
of this vast country, surrounded on every side by 
Algonquins, dwelt the Iroquois. The so-called Five 
Nations occupied the central portion of New York; 
to the south of them were the Andastes or Susque- 
hannocks; the Eries lived on the southern shore of 
the lake which bears their name; and the northern 
shore was occupied by a tribe known as the Neutral 
Nation. To the north of these came the Hurons, 
One Iroquois tribe — the Tuscaroras — lay quite apart 
from the rest, in North Carolina; but in 1715 this 
tribe migrated to New York, and joined the famous 
Iroquois league, which was henceforth known as the 
Six Nations. The Indians south of the Tennessee 
and Carolina line, such as the Creeks, Cherokees, 
Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, belong to a 
third family — the Mobilian — distinct from the Algon- 
quins and Iroquois. The Natchez of the Lower 
Mississippi are supposed by some ethnologists to have 
been an intruding branch of the Mexican Toltecs. Far 
north, in Wisconsin, the well-known Winnebagos were 
