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its neighbors. Indeed we regard all unrecorded Indian tradi- 

 tion, referring to < rents beyond tl nth cen- 



tury, a< entitled to no oonfiden 



The names the [ndiam tl upon themselves, contain no 



clue to their early history. 1 , for the most part purely 



dental, as they ai i day. They do not refer to their 



y do iu>t in Bome -ir peculiar- 



itiee. This is, we think, emphatically true i I I rarious t; 



Ugonqoins. To part of the people composing this itock, 

 who \\< i in a country aboanding in lakes and streams, 



the) al name of > . i. c. People of the Place 



of Waters. Pan. who lived on the north shore of the Golf of 

 St. Lawrence, subsisting on fish, they called Popinoshees, allu- 

 ding to a kind of fish. Those who dwelt in swampy grounds, 

 (as between that point and Lake Superior.) wore called Mush- 

 keegos, from the name for swamp. Those who lived in plains, 

 southwest of Lake Michigan, Muscotins, from plain. Others 

 having a peculiarity of intonation, were called OjhY I Ihip- 



pfewas; B band who lit op a council (ire for th 91, Potta- 



ther band, given to trading, Ottawa-: another 

 who inflicted cruelties in their northern wars, Kenii 

 ther who lived inland, Nopimings. Others might be added to 

 the list. These were all identical people : but not one of the 

 name referred to their origin. The French, on their arrival in- 

 creased the confusion, by bestowing a new name upon < 

 rendering the thread of history more entangled, and utterly con- 

 founding all attempts to trace their affiliation by etymolo 

 They called the iir>t band whom they found Speaking this lan- 

 guage, on tin St. Lawn v gonquins, probaby because I 

 sabf b ! - This term 1. generic. Bui 

 th( i light thrown by it on the I >-. Nay, 

 there is not a particle of proof that the Indians had bestowed 

 it upon then or that it was not given like all their other 

 appellations, as a n No wonder should 

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