PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE LINGUISTIC CLASSI- 
FICATION OF ALGONQUIAN TRIBES 
By Truman MiIcHELson 
INTRODUCTION 
In order to determine the linguistic classification of the Algonquian 
tribes, the writer visited in the season of 1910 the Piegan of Mon- 
tana, the Northern Cheyenne of Montana, the Northern Arapaho 
of Wyoming, the Menominee of Wisconsin, and the Micmac of Resti- 
gouche, P. Q., Canada. Later in the year the Ojibwa of White 
Earth (Minnesota) sent a delegation to Washington, and the occasion 
was utilized to procure a few grammatical notes from them. During 
the season of 1911 he visited the Fox of Iowa; and the Sauk, Kicka- 
poo, and Shawnee of Oklahoma. In the winter of 1911-12 he spent a 
few weeks at the nonreservation school at Carlisle, Pa., and there had 
an opportunity to obtain some notes on Northern Arapaho, the Cree 
of Fort Totten (listed officially as Turtle Mountain Chippewa), 
Menominee, Sauk, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Abnaki. The 
results of the field work of 1911 and 1912 could be incorporated only 
in the proof-sheets of the present paper. For some Algonquian 
languages dependence has also been placed on the unpublished 
material of the Bureau, some manuscripts of the late Dr. William 
Jones (for Kickapoo) and of Mr. W. Mechling (for Malecite), and the 
published material. Prof. A. L. Kroeber very kindly furnished some 
of his Arapaho texts to supplement those of the writer. Prof. J. 
Dyneley Prince generously offered the use of his collection of conso- 
nantic clustersin Passamaquoddy and Abnaki. Owing to unforeseen 
circumstances these can not be published here, but they have been of 
assistance in determining the general character of Eastern Algon- 
quian, and his helpfulness is appreciated. Thanks are due also to 
Dr. Robert H. Lowie, of the American Museum of Natural History, 
for the privilege of using some Northern Blackfoot texts. Dr. 
Edward Sapir, of the Geological Survey of Canada, with character- 
istic liberality, placed his field-notes on Cree, Montagnais, Abnaki, 
Malecite, and Delaware (collected in the season of 1911) at the 
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