_Synonyms._--Lenapian, Wapanachki=_men of the east_. This is said by Heckewelder to have been their national and collective name. Probably, however, it was so only for the tribes on the Atlantic.
_Distribution._--East and west from the Rocky Mountains to Newfoundland; north and south, from Labrador to the Carolinas. Breadth greatest in its northern part, decreasing towards the south.
_Area._--Newfoundland, part of Labrador, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, south-eastern part of the Hudson's Bay territory, the boundary line between British North America and the United States, the north-western part of the Missouri territory, part of the Wisconsin territory, parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, &c., the New England States, Virginia, Kentucky(?), North Carolina.
_Divisions._--_a._ Bethucks. _b._ Central Algonkins. _c._ Shiennes. _d._ Blackfoots. Classification provisional.
_a._ _Bethucks._--Locality Newfoundland. Probably extinct. Not hitherto recognised as Algonkin.
_b._ _Central Algonkins._--1. _The Crees_, _Knisteneaux_, _Klisteno_, or _Kilistheno_. Native name, _Nĕhethowuck_=_exact people_. Situation, the river-system of the rivers Nelson, Salmon, and Albany, falling into Hudson's Bay.
2. _Ojibways_, on the south and west sides of Lake Superior, south of the Crees.
4. _Nipissing._--Closely allied tribes on the sides of the Lake of the Two Mountains, in the district of Montreal.
5. _Ottawas._--On the river Ottawa, in the islands of Lake Superior. Northern part of Michigan, Closely allied to the Proper Algonkins.
6. _Montagnards_, _Mountaineers._--The French name and its translation, of the name of the tribes between Montreal and the mouth of the St. Lawrence.
7. _Scoffis_--_Nascopies_.--The Algonkins of Labrador. Conterminous with the Eskimo.
9. _Abenakis._--In the state of Maine, in the valley of the Kennebec.
10. _Etchemin._---From whom the state of Maine, took its name. A tribe of these occupy the valley of the St John's River, in New Brunswick.
11. _Passamaquoddy._--Maine. A branch of the Etchemin.
12. _Micmacs._--New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, parts of Labrador and Newfoundland.
14. _Messisaugis._--North of Lake Ontario, at its junction with the St. Lawrence.