The Lenâpé and Their Legends

CHAPTER I.

§ 1. THE ALGONKIN STOCK.

Scheme of its Dialects--Probable Primitive Location

§ 2. THE IROQUIS STOCK.

The Susquehannocks--The Hurons--The Cherokees

§ 1. _The Algonkin Stock_.

About the period 1500-1600, those related tribes whom we now know by the name of Algonkins were at the height of their prosperity. They occupied the Atlantic coast from t...