";s:4:"text";s:3270:"The The historical Algonquin society was largely hunting and fishing-based. Mercury Series Number 65 (p. 88)Black, Meredith Jean, 1980, Algonquin Ethnobotany: An Interpretation of Aboriginal Adaptation in South Western Quebec, Ottawa. Algonquian-speaking people also practiced agriculture, particularly south of the Some centuries later, the Algonquin tribe moved in and inhabited the islands and shores along the Ottawa. The In 1981, members of the Algonquin tribe successfully blockaded a commercial rice-harvesting venture which the In recent years, tensions with the lumber industry have flared up again among Algonquin communities, in response to the practice of clear-cutting. The Algonquin people call themselves Omàmiwinini (plural: Omàmiwininiwak) or the more generalised name of Anicinàpe. They used materials that were light and easy to transport. As of 2000, there are close to 8,000 Algonquins in Canada, organized into ten separate First Nations: nine in Quebec and one in Ontario. Mercury Series Number 65, page 107 Being primarily a hunting nation, the people emphasized mobility. In Ontario, an Algonquin land claim has been ongoing since 1983, encompassing much of the southeastern part of the province, stretching from near Members of the Algonquin tribe began a peaceful blockade of an operation on their sacred lands north of In addition to the charges of contempt, Frontenac Ventures is suing the Algonquins for $77 million in civil damages. National Museums of Canada. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi and Ojibwe, with whom they form the larger Anicinàpe (Anishinaabe) grouping. Ottawa. By the 17th century the first Europeans found them well established as a hunter-gatherer society in control of the river. The British estimate in 1768 was 1,500. Mercury Series Number 65 (p. 216)Black, Meredith Jean 1980 Algonquin Ethnobotany: An Interpretation of Aboriginal Adaptation in South Western Quebec. National Museums of Canada. Many Algonquins still speak the Algonquin language, called generally Traditionally, the Algonquins were practitioners of In the earliest oral history, the Algonquins say they migrated from the Champlain made his first exploration of the Ottawa River during May 1613 and reached the fortified At first, the French used the term "Algonquin" only for a second group, the Through all of these years, the Iroquois never attacked the Some joined the mission at Sillery, where they were mostly destroyed by an Starting in 1721, many Christian Algonquins began to settle for the summer at Kahnesatake, near Oka.
These population figures are from Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.Black, Meredith Jean 1980 Algonquin Ethnobotany: An Interpretation of Aboriginal Adaptation in South Western Quebec. On March 18, 2008, contempt charges were dropped "without costs" against three non-native At the time of their first meeting with the French in 1603, the various Algonquin bands probably had a combined population somewhere in the neighborhood of 6,000.