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MacIntyre Range > Algonquin Peak > Additions and Corrections
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| skiing311 | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | I found that Marcy was harder than Algonquin, even after climbing Wright. However, they are two completely different climbs. Marcy is LONG, but relatively flat until you reach the summit dome. Algonquin is shorter, but steeper until you climb above treeline where the walking becomes realtively easy compared to above treeline on Marcy. | |
| Posted Sep 5, 2002 4:25 pm | ||
| nartreb | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Geography of native tribes depends who you ask and what time period you're talking about. In this case there's also a problem of definition, since "algonquin" might refer either to a specific tribe or to a very large linguistic group. "During a 50-year war beginning sometime around 1570, the eastern Iroquois drove the Algonquin from the Adirondack Mountains and the upper St. Lawrence River" ---source Actually the fighting was nearly continuous, despite a couple of Dutch-brokered truces in the 1610s. From the 1620s to the 1690s it was called the "Beaver Wars", with the Mohawk Iroquois generally winning against the Mohican, Algonkin, Abenaki, Huron, and many others on many fronts, with French, English, Dutch, and even Swedish forces involved from time to time. The Algonkin proper formed several alliances against the Iroquois, and several campaigns were waged not too far from here. So while Algonkin territory may not have extended this far at any given time, the idea that at some point in the 17th century these peaks marked the border of the Algonkin sphere of influence isn't too far-fetched. The enemies of the Iroquois in this region (notably the Abenaki and Mahicans) spoke languages in the Algonquian family, and the Iroquois didn't always distinguish clearly among them, calling them all "Adirondack" ("tree-eaters"), so the Dutch or English settlers who named the peaks could easily have been confused. [The Algonquians returned the favor: "Iroquois" comes from an Algonquian word meaning "rattlesnake"] alqonkin history [note: many broken links on that page due to a change in domain name, easy to fix manually if the redirects are too slow] summary of Mohawk [iroquois] history detailed iroquois history | |
| Posted Jun 29, 2005 3:55 pm | ||
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