Talk:Algonquian peoples

message: This article incorporates a whole slew of text originally at Algonquin. You can view the history there. My reasons for moving the text here was to make room for information on the Algonquins themselves, as the "Algonquin" article was about the Algonquian speaking peoples. This is sort of like an article about Belarus containing lots of general information on Slavic peoples, but nothing specifically about Belarus. QuartierLatin1968 23:17, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a bunch more names (and location) in response to this point, but beware the Ethnologue! They're notorious for multiplying and splitting languages that would never be considered languages by the speakers themselves. An attitude all the more questionable thanks to the widespread sense of common kinship among Algonkian peoples (which has of course also been aided and abetted by pan-Indianism). QuartierLatin1968 08:44, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: Have just added the remains of a paragraph from Algonkin. I wonder if we should think of coming up with a different name for the Algonkins – perhaps Anicinape or Algonkin (just one lonely tribe of ten reserves in central Canada, not the whole phylum HONESTLY).— Preceding unsigned comment added by QuartierLatin1968 (talk • contribs) 09:32, 17 January 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Let the Algonquian Tribes speak for themselves!  By looking at their self-designations, the grouping becomes relatively easy.  For example, under "Anishinaabeg/Anihšināpek/Anicinapek/Neshnabék" group, we have the Ojibwe, Odaawaa, Potawatomi, as well as the Algonkin, Mississaugas and the Nipissing, and the Quinnipiac (as "Eansketambawg").  Similarly, the Delaware Tribes, much of the Atlantic Tribes and the Wabanaki Tribes can also be grouped together as "Lenapek/Renapek/Al'nambak" group, Cree group as "Inu/Iyu/Iru/Ithu" group, the Severn Ojibwe that is also known as Oji-Cree as "Anishinini," etc. CJLippert 15:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Older comments

message: Algonquian people in the present states of Wyoming, Colorado, southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas were ancestors to Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Frink, Lisa. (2006) Gender and Hide Production. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. p. 30. .
This cannot be right. The Cheyenne migrated into the area from the upper Missouri. Fred Bauder 16:16, 2 February 2012 (EST)
What is the story with the map showing a couple of pockets of red on the Pacific coast? What tribe(s) does this represent? The same graphic is used in several topics, but similarly no explanation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.243.201.27 (talk) 15:55, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Western areas

message: This can not be correct.  It is unsourced.  The pre-contact population of the total of the western hemisphere, possibly, but not for the Algonquian peoples.  Maybe a couple of hundred thousand, perhaps more, but certainly not "hundreds of millions".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingervlad (talk • contribs) 22:56, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Hundreds of millions

message: We can find, in this article, both plural forms: The Algonquian are one of the most [...] / The Algonquians of New England [...] Which one is correct? both are? Kintaro (talk) 22:29, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural of "Algonquian" 

message: To add to article: where are the Algonquian peoples/languages believed to have originated? 76.189.141.37 (talk) 04:09, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article

message: The article contains this sentence:
"The Ojibwe cultivated wild rice"
If they cultivated it, then it wasn't wild.  Perhaps this could be remedied by giving the genus and species of the plant.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.24.5.76 (talk) 18:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  An unnecessary oxymoron 

message: The article contains the statement
"Northerners developed a practice of going hungry for several days at a time. Historians hypothesize that this practice kept the population down, according to Liebig's law."
It's not at all clear how the practice of voluntary fasting relates to a limiting factor (Liebig's law) and population regulation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.24.5.76 (talk) 18:32, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable validity