The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada and parts of the United States. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Cultura
Algonquin couple, 18th-century watercolor. The first Algonquian encountered by the French were the Kitcisìpiriniwak ("Ottawa River Men"; singular: Kitcisìpirini), whose village was located on an island in the Ottawa River; the French called this group La Nation de l'Isle.
Rackets (snowshoes) used by Algonquin tribes for elk hunting
Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg is an Algonquin First Nation in Quebec, Canada. It is based in the Outaouais region and owns one Indian reserve named Kitigan Zibi, located on the shores of the Gatineau River
Algonquin people
…Nibachis — Located at Muskrat Lake near present-day Cobden, Ontario. Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Kitigan Zibi near Maniwaki (population 3,237) Timiskaming First Nation, Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec (population 2,129…
Elder William Commanda, chief of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg from 1951 to 1970