Algonquian peoples

The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. They historically were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and in the interior regions along Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by hunting and fishing, although many of them 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 peoples is not known. 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: Mohegan of Connecticut, United States Chowanoke, formerly of North Carolina Carolina Algonquian Roanoke, formerly of North Carolina Croatan, formerly of North Carolina Powhatan Confederacy of Virginia Pamunkey of Virginia, United States Powhatan people of Virginia, United States Wampanoag of Massachusetts Wabanaki of the Maritime provinces/Atlantic provinces in Canada and New England in the United States Abenaki of Quebec, Canada; historically New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. Penobscot of Maine Miꞌkmaq of Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Newfoundland Passamaquoddy of Maine, United States, and New Brunswick, Canada.