Mississagua Indians


A tribe of Algonquian stock. They are named on

Galinee's map of 1670 as occupying the north shore of Lake Huron, about

the mouth of Thessalon River. Some were at the mission of Sault Ste.

Marie, 1670-1673. After the great Iroquois raid of 1650, they scattered

to the north country. A hundred years later, some of the tribe were

found on the borders of Lake Ontario. They had been absorbed by the

Iroquois in 1746. About seven hundred are now living on reservations in

Ontario. =Index=: (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Engage in ginseng trade, 148; lands purchased

from, 265. =Bib.=: Chamberlain, Notes on the History, Customs and

Beliefs of the Mississaguas; Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian

Languages; Jesuit Relations, ed. by Thwaites.



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