Word: algonquion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that a free-lance anthropologist named David I. Bushnell Jr., after long sifting of evidence and conferences with Dr. Hrdlicka and other experts, had completed preliminary maps tracing the west-east course of four great tribes. The Algonquion came from the northwest, skirted the Great Lakes, spread over the Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf...
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