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tribes ; the Delaware and Minsi of Pennsylvania and New Jersey ; the Nanticokes 

 of Maryland; the Susquehannocks ; the Powhattans of Virginia, and the Pamlicoes 

 of North Carolina.* The northern tribes of this great family are familiar in our 

 colonial history by the names of Mohegans or Pequods, Narragansets, Wampanoags 

 and Pawtuckets. The Delawares, less belligerent than those nations, occupy a 

 prominent place in the early annals of Pennsylvania, while the Powhattans hold 

 the same relative position to Virginia. 



The Western group of Lenape includes the Menominees, the Miamis, the 

 Illinois, the Ottigamies or Foxes, the Sauks, Kickapoos and Shawnoes, together 

 with some subordinate tribes. They occupied a wide tract of country, extending 

 from the Cumberland river on the south to the Great Lakes. 



It is only necessary to add, that these numerous and often remote nations 

 speak dialects of a single language, and that philologists have grouped them on 

 account of this affinity. In physical character there is also an obvious resemblance, 

 and their social habits are much alike ; but these points will be considered more 

 in detail hereafter. 



We may here add from Mr. Gallatin, that "it is difficult to ascertain whether 

 the name of Algonkins or Algoumekins, did belong to any particular tribe, or vras 

 used as a generic appellation." The tribes living on the Ottawa river were more 

 especially distinguished by the name of Algonquins. 



THE CHIPPEWAYS. 



This powerful nation roves in bands over an extensive tract of country, 

 embracing the whole of the Lakes Superior and Winnepeck, and the Lake of the 

 Woods. Their camps are also seen on Lake Pepin, on the Spirit Lake, on the 

 Assinaboin and Saskatchawan rivers, and at the Sault St. Marie. They are, 

 however, a thinly scattered people, whose numbers have been rapidly diminished 

 by war and the small pox, those two fatal enemies of Indian life. 



Mr. Keating gives the following physical traits of this nation. " The 



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