ओटावा नदी घाटी में ओटावा नदी घाटी और क्यूबेक में एक उत्तरी अमेरिकी भारतीय लोगों का एक सदस्य

algonkins's Usage Examples:

Thus Qat, Quahteaht, Pundjel, Maui, Ioskeha, Cagn, Wainamoinen and an endless array of others represent the ideal and heroic first teachers of Melanesians, Ahts, Australians, Maoris, Algonkins, Bushmen and Finns.

These people are at any rate above the Greenlanders, but are surpassed by the Algonkins described by Nicholas Perrot in 1700, and by the Iroquois, whom the heroic Father Brebeuf (1J93-1649) learned to know so we11.3 The earth-maker of the former was called Michabo, i.e.

"The Algonkins say that birds always make the winds, that they create the waterspouts, and that the clouds are the spreading and agitation of their wings."

Deluge), we meet again with the primeval waters and the world-egg, and with the famous mythological tortoise-theory, 5 also found among the Algonkins (§ 2) - antique beliefs gathered up by the framers of philosophic systems, who felt the importance of maintaining such links with the distant past.

The Iroquois are in advance of the Algonkins; their creator-hero has no touch of the animal in him.

The Algonkins, however, thought otherwise, and the myth itself suggests a theriomorphic earth-maker.

algonkins's Meaning':

a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec