The Algonchinis are a whole populations of indians of America, appartenents to the most populous and broadly distributed. He understands, besides the said algonchinis properly, black foot, cheyenne, cree, delaware, fox, arapaho, kickapoo, massachuset, miami, micmac, mohegan, narragansett, ojibwa, ottawa, pequot, potawatomi. Originally he almost understood varied hundred speaking groups fifty languages. To the beginning of the XII sec. the greatest nucleus of the Algonchinis had divided in two nations: the Ogibwes (Chippewa) and the said Algonchinis properly. The algonchinis occupied the greatest part of the the bay of Hudson based Canadian region, between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic coast, the part of the United States that is extended to north between the North Carolina and the Tennessee, to exclusion of the territories lived by sioux and irochesi and some areas isolated to south and west, in the actual states South Carolina, Iowa, Wyoming and Montana. You/they had divided in clan and tribe esogamiche to patriarchal structure and type totemic, reunited in different nations and confederations, of which the most known, call Powhatan, from the name of his/her head, the father of the heroin Pocahontas, was found around the bay of Chesapeake. Their bodily structure is tall stature, strong and thick body, mesocefalia or brachicefalia, with prevailing leptoprosopia, color of the brown-yellowish skin. They cultivated corn, beans, pumpkins and tobacco (considered sacred plant); to these operations the women were devoted, while the men were being dealt with the hunting, especially to the elk, and to the fishing. The Algonchinis, datum the method of workmanship of the earth, was nomadic, for which used varied types of residence in relationship to the seasons and the place: the wigwam, curtain in form of dome and the hut of bark of tree, that you/he/she had cried quadrangular. The suits had realized with skins of animals. The typical attire was shirt to half leg, mocassins and mantle. The fundamental weapons were the arc, the cudgel with the head of stone (tomahawk), the round shield of skin, and, after the introduction of the iron from the Europeans, the ax that taken the same name of the cudgel. The actual Algonchinis have dispersed in small groups and confined in reserves on the river Gatineau, in the you press of Ottawa, and they count around 2.000 components. To them some typical flat nordamericanis are owed among which the succotash, sour corn with beans and meat in brine and the known popcorn.
