Algonquian peoples

[2] Before contact with Europeans, most Algonquian settlements lived by hunting and fishing, with many of them supplementing their diet by cultivating corn, beans and squash (the "Three Sisters").

[3] At the time of the first European settlements in North America, Algonquian peoples resided in present-day Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, New England, New Jersey, southeastern New York, Delaware, and down the Atlantic Coast to the Upper South, and around the Great Lakes in present-day Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

At the time of the European arrival, the hegemonic Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New York and Pennsylvania, was regularly at war with their Algonquian neighbors.

The Abenaki were located in northern New England: present-day Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont in what became the United States and eastern Quebec in what became Canada.

The people moved to locations of greatest natural food supply, often breaking into smaller units or gathering as the circumstances required.

[citation needed] In the spring, when the fish were spawning, they left the winter camps to build villages at coastal locations and waterfalls.

[6] From April through October, natives hunted migratory birds and their eggs: Canada geese, brant, mourning doves and others.

[7] In December, when the snows began, the people created larger winter camps in sheltered locations, where they built or reconstructed longhouses.

[15] Ojibwe/Chippewa, Odawa, Potawatomi, and a variety of Cree groups lived in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Western Ontario, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Canadian Prairies.