Algonquins

Indians of N. America, who inhabited the region from Lake Winnipeg to Labrador and south to the Appal a chi an tribes (except the Huron-Iroquois of central New York). They tilled the soil, even using fertilizers, built villages, worshiped the heavenly bodies, gave women power to decide on war and other momentous questions. The most important tribes included were: (1) Crees of n. w. Canada, 15.000; (2) Mikmaks of New Brunswick, who had a system of hieroglyphics and who still are hunters and fishers; (3) the Maine tribes; (4) several tribes of New England, now extinct; (5) the Leni-Lenapi, Mohicans of New York, Del a wares, Powhatans of Virginia; (6) Shawnees, driven south by the Iroquois, now ab. 1600, scattered and civilized; (7) Illinois: (8) Sac-Fox Indians of Wisconsin, ab. 1000 in Indian Territory; (9) Pot taw atomies of s. w. shores of L. Michigan; (10) Ojibways, north of L. Superior; (11) Black feet of Manitoba, 25,000, now in this region, including parts of Minnesota and Dakota; (12) Ottawas of Canada. Algorism, or ALGORITHM. From the surname of Moham med Ben Musa Alcherarizmi, an early Arabian mathematician: used to distinguish reckoning with numerals from that by the abacus; introduced among Arabs in the 9th century and adopted through them by Europe ans in the 12th century.