People / group
Algonquin people
The Algonquin are an Indigenous people of the Ottawa River valley in present-day Quebec and Ontario, whose name was later given to the wider Algonquian language family. Hunters and fur traders, they allied with Samuel de Champlain and the Huron against the Mohawk in 1609, beginning a long alliance with the French. Wars with the Iroquois in the seventeenth century drove many from their lands, and today they live in several communities in Quebec and Ontario.
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