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The Algonquins or Algonkins are an aboriginal North American people speaking Algonquin, an Algonquian language. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, with whom they form the larger Anishinaabe grouping. Most Algonkins today live in Quebec; the nine Algonkin bands in that province and one in Ontario have a combined population of about 11 000.
Although theirs was largely a hunting and fishing culture, some Algonkins practiced agriculture and cultivated corn, beans, and squash, the famous "Three Sisters" of indigenous horticulture.
They fought the Iroquois due to their rivalry in the fur trade; and formed an alliance with the Montagnais to the east in 1570Events January 23 The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war February 25 Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. May 20 Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. August 8 The Peace of Sai.
From 1603Events March 24 Death of Elizabeth I of England her cousin King James VI of Scotland succeeds her uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April 28 Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey July 17 or July 19 Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for they allied themselves with the French.
These population figures are from Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.