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Montagnais-Naskapi |
Algonquin |
Ojibwa
About 6,000 BCE the Montagnais lived in
the New England area but were able to migrate north
about 1 BCE as massive ice sheets receded from the
northern and eastern Quebec area. When the French
arrived they called these people the Montagnais or
"mountaineers" due to their habitation throughout the
Laurentians. They were also known by other native groups
as Kebik which may have been the origin of the name
Quebec. The various tribes spoke slightly
different dialects such as
- Astouregamigoukh
- Attikiriniouetch
- Bersiamite
- Chisedec
- Escoumains
- Espamichkon
- Kakouchaki
- Mauthaepi
- Miskouaha
- Mouchaouaouastiirinioek
- Nascapee
- Nekoubaniste
- Otaguottouemin
- Oukesestigouek
- Oumamiwek
- Papinachois
- Tadousac
- Weperigweia
This was the Algonquin group that
Champlain made contact with at the mouth of the Saguenay
River and had pushed the Iroquois out of the St Lawrence
river valley. They were impacted by disease from Europe
and over the next 300 years their numbers fell to under
2000 by 1812.
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