Algonquian Indians
The name is now applied to what is probably the
most widely-distributed linguistic stock of North America. In the days
of French Canada, it was given to a comparatively small and unimportant
tribe, whose home was on the banks of the Ottawa. =Index=: (Bishop Laval era) Two camps
of, destroyed, 9; missions destroyed by drunkenness, 175. =Bib.=:
Parkman, Conspiracy of Pontiac; Brinton, The Lenape and Their
Legends; Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages.