Arctic searching expedition Author:John Richardson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. XIV. EYTHINYUWUK, OR CREES AND CHIPPEWAYS. NATIONAL NAMES. DIVISION. TRIBES TERRITORY. WARS WITH THE MENGWE. CONVENTIONAL CHARACTER NOT TRUE. PE... more »RSONS. GAIT.CRIMES. WABUNSI. WIGWAMS. RELIGIOUS BELIEF. VAPOUR BATHS. EVERLASTING FIRE ITS RITES. USED IN SICKNESS. ITS PRIESTS. ITS ORIGIN. CHIEF SUN. POLICY. CAXUMET. MAIZE. FOOD. REINDEER. BISON WHITE-FISH. EARTH-WORKS. POTTERY. LANGUAGE. HALF-BREEDS. COLONY OF RED RIVER OR OSNABOYA. SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. The people who designate themselves Eythinyuwuk or Ininyu-we-u, occupy the country lying between the Rocky Mountains and Hudson-s Bay, and reaching from the 'Tinne boundary down to the plains of the Saskatchewan and valley of the St. Lawrence; their hunting-grounds on the plains interlocking with those of the Dakotas or Sioux. They are identified as a nation with the Algonkins and Lenni- lenape or Delawares, who once owned the whole country east of the Mississippi as far south as Carolina, but who, blighted by the precocious expansion of the Anglo-Saxon colonists, have dwindled down to a few remnants of mixed blood. The generic term Algic, taken from the root of the word Al- gonkin, has been employed by the philologists of the United States to comprehend all the tribes who VOL. II. T speak dialects of the Algonkin tongue, and whose southern limits are stated by Schoolcraft to be conterminous with the Catawbas, Creeks, Cherokees, Chactas, and Chickasas. The tract which they occupied in the year 1600 includes the whole area of the United States east of the Mississippi, north of these nations, excepting the grounds of several tribes of the Iroquois race, north and south. In 1603, when the French settled in Canada, the Algonkins, according to Golden, were " the most warlike and polite nation in ...« less