Posted by Mike Shaffer on August 20, 2000 at 22:20:45:

In Reply to: Re: Re: WHERE DID BARNABUS FIRST STEP ASHORE? posted by Ron Choquette on August 19, 2000 at 22:00:57:

No, they are two different languages and two seperate regions. Some customs as well as hunting, fishing and some gathering characteristics were similiar, but their languages were as different as chinese and english. The Athapascans to which Elyse refered were of the northwest and the Algonkian to which I refered were of the northeast. More is known about the origins of the Athapascans because so many of their people still exist (their populations are actually growing), while much of the Algonkians history was lost to the initial onslaught of Europeans and the early European immigration that in essense robbed them of their heritage. Another thing that set the two apart was the Athapascans used primarily wooden tools or relied on antlers, bone and the like while the Algonkians relied more or primarily on stone. The easterns made very little use of wood or animals to make tools. Both people, however, were sub-arctic in origin. The Cree would be an example of Algonkian and an example of Athabaskan would be a Chipewyan. Iroquis for example is merely a language spoken by a league of tribes made up of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk. They (not unlike the English refering to the Nation of Lakota, Dakota, et al as Sioux)were often mistakenly refered to as Iroquis.

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