Algonquin

The Algonquian are among the most popular and widespread North American native language groups. They historically were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and in the interior regions along the Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. This grouping consists of the people who speak Algonquian languages.

Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by hunting and fishing, although many supplemented their diet by cultivating corn, beans and squash (the "Three Sisters"). The Ojibwe cultivated wild rice.

At the time of the first European settlements in North America, Algonquian peoples resided in present-day Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, New England, New Jersey, southeastern New York, Delaware, and down the Atlantic Coast to the Upper South, and around the Great Lakes in present-day Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The precise homeland of the Algonquian people has yet to be discovered. At the time of the European arrival, the hegemonic Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New York and Pennsylvania, was regularly at war with Algonquian neighbours. 

The Algonquian peoples include and have included historical populations in:

1. Mohegan of Connecticut, United States

2. Chowanoke, formerly of North Carolina

3. Carolina Algonquian

4. Roanoke, formerly of North Carolina

5. Croatan, formerly of North Carolina

6. Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia

7. Pamunkey of Virginia, United States

8. Powhatan people of Virginia, United States

9. Wampanoag of Massachusetts

10. Wabanaki of the Maritime provinces/Atlantic provinces in Canada and New England in the United States

11. Abenaki of Quebec, Canada; historically New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.

12. Penobscot of Maine

13. Miꞌkmaq of Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Newfoundland

14. Passamaquoddy of Maine, United States, and New Brunswick, Canada.

15. Maliseet of New Brunswick and Quebec

16. Shawnee, formerly of the Ohio River Valley, now Oklahoma

17. Central Algonquian peoples

18. Kickapoo (Kikapú, Kiikaapoa, Kiikaapoi): originally from southeast Michigan and Wisconsin, United States; now in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, United States; Coahuila, Mexico

19. Peoria (Illiniwek), formerly Illinois, now Oklahoma

20. Anishinaabe, Great Lakes, Subarctic, Northern Plains

21. Ojibwe (including the Saulteaux and Oji-Cree)), Minnesota, North Dakota, and Michigan, United States, as well as Ontario, Canada

22. Potawatomi of Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, United States; Ontario, Canada

23. Menominee of Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, United States and Ontario, Canada

24. Odawa of Michigan and now Oklahoma, United States; Ontario, Canada

25. Mississaugas of Ontario, Canada

26. Nipissing of Ontario, Canada.

27. Algonquin of Ontario and Quebec, Canada

28. Cree of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, Canada, Montana, and the United States..

List of historic Algonquian-speaking peoples

• Algonquin

• Abenaki

  • Missiquoi

  • Pennacook

• Arapaho

• Beothuk

• Blackfoot

• Cheyenne

• Chowanoke

• Cree

• Gros Ventre

• Illinois

• Kickapoo

• Lenape

  • Munsee

    • Wappinger

  • Unami

• Meskwaki

• Menominee

• Mahican

• Maliseet

• Mascouten

• Massachusett

• Mattabesic

  • Mattabessett

  • Podunk

  • Tunxis

  • Paugussett

  • Quinnipiac

  • Unquachog

• Miami

• Mi'kmaq

• Montaukett

• Mohegan

• Nanticoke

  • Piscataway

    • Nacotchtank

• Narragansett

• Nipissing

• Nipmuc

• Odawa

• Ojibwe

  • Mississauga

• Passamaquoddy

• Penobscot

• Pequot

• Potawatomi

• Powhatan

• Sauk

• Shawnee

  • Chalahgawtha

  • Hathawekela

  • Kispoko

  • Mekoche

  • Pekowi

• Secotan

  • Roanoke people

    • Croatan

• Wampanoag

• Weapemeoc

• Plains Cree

Algonquin people Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Kitigan Zibi near Maniwaki Quebec

From Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Cultural Center, Maniwaki to Home Town of Eric Michel Kent St., Hull, QC. 1 hr 31 min (129 km) via Rte 105 S

From Maniwaki, Quebec to Sainte-Cécile-de-Masham Eric Michel's mom Home Town, Quebec.1 hr 21 min (109 km) via Rte 105 S

Note: 

• Annie Galipeau is an actress who starred in the 1999 movie about Grey Owl alongside Pierce Brosnan and played  Aerenshehaweh, 12 years with Maria Orsini in the Shehawe  TV-Series of 1992. She was born June 1,  1979, in Maniwaki, Québec, Canada. She is related to  Eric Michel's mom: Cousine Marguerite Gosselin's husband, Georges Galipeau.

• Shehaweh is a Quebec television series with five 48-minute episodes scripted by Fernand Dansereau and broadcast from March 9 to April 6, 1993, on Radio-Canada Television. Shehaweh tells the story of a young Native American taken from her people to be raised by the French who want to "civilize" her.

Distribution or Cast:

Marina Orsini : Aerenshehaweh

Monique Mercure : Jeanne Mance

Denis Bernard : Nicholas Lacharité

Louise Laparé : Marguerite Bourgeoys

René-Daniel Dubois : D'Ailleboust

Jean Marchand : M. Souart

Pierre Curzi : Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve

Nathalie Gadouas : Sœur Maillet

Sophie Faucher : Sœur Lauvin

Normand D'Amour : Jean Larivée

René Richard Cyr : Sulpicien Perot

Patrick Goyette : Gaientonhon

Maurice Barrier : Frontenac

Paul Guers : Marquis de Tracy

Annie Galipeau : Aerenshehaweh, 12 ans

Marina Foïs : Elizabeth Durant

Olivia Brunaux : Marguerite Bizier

Aurélien Recoing : Louis XIV

Armelle Deguy : Barbe de Beaujeu

Luc Picard : Adrien Guillou

Mike Phillips : Sonakares

Marie-Renée Patry : la matrone

Ben Cardinal : Onsegongo  Victor Whitetail on the CBC series Heartland.

Billy Two Rivers : Guerrier

Benoît Brière : Martin Fournier

Nathalie Mallette : Jeanne Verger

Cédric Noël : chef des Prévost

Céline Bonnier : Renée Vauquet

Emmanuel Charest : François Gadois