Montagnais Indians

A tribe of Algonquian stock. Occupied the Saguenay country in 1608, when Cham plain visited Tadou ac, and acted as intermediaries between the French and the tribes of the far north. They defeated a party of Iroquois in 1610, with Cham plain's a istance; but paid bitterly for their succe in later years, when the warriors of the Five Nations hunted them relentle ly throughout all the region of their northern fastne es. In 1633 the Jesuits first established mi ions among them, and laboured diligently for many years among this most degraded of the Algonquian tribes. They are described in modern narratives of exploration and travel in northern Quebec and Labrador. Index : Ch Induced to cultivate land near Quebec, 159; allies of the French, 162, 163; murders committed by, 164; give Cham plain three young girls to be educated, 165. Bib. : Parkman, Pioneers of France and Jesuits in North America ; Pilling, Bibliography of Algonquian Languages ; Comeau, Life and Sport on the North Shore of the Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf ; Low, Report on Labrador (Geol. Survey, 1895).