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This article incorporates a whole slew of text originally at Algonquin. You can view the history there. My reasons for moving the text here was to make room for information on the Algonquins themselves, as the "Algonquin" article was about the Algonquian speaking peoples. This is sort of like an article about Belarus containing lots of general information on Slavic peoples, but nothing specifically about Belarus. QuartierLatin1968 23:17, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
This article needs serious expansion. At present it misses half the Algonquian peoples. I'll try to do it if I have time, but if somebody wants to start, dig in. Diderot 19:41, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The text says: "At the time of the first European settlements in South America, Algonquian tribes occupied what is now New England, New Jersey, southeastern New York, New Brunswick, Kawaii"... and "Kawaii" links to the page on the Japanese concept of cuteness. Can someone knowledgeable figure out what this was supposed to mean in the article, and fix it? 71.236.160.3 ( talk) 09:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
This is a very incomplete article considering the subject..the Alogonquians were one of the biggest language groups in America..this article needs to be expanded..also they were and are all over the south...not just concentrated in New England. Lonepilgrim007 ( talk) 18:31, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Algonquian people in the present states of Wyoming, Colorado, southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas were ancestors to Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Frink, Lisa. (2006) Gender and Hide Production. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. p. 30. ISBN 0-7591-0850-1.
This cannot be right. The Cheyenne migrated into the area from the upper Missouri. Fred Bauder 16:16, 2 February 2012 (EST)
What is the story with the map showing a couple of pockets of red on the Pacific coast? What tribe(s) does this represent? The same graphic is used in several topics, but similarly no explanation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.243.201.27 ( talk) 15:55, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
This can not be correct. It is unsourced. The pre-contact population of the total of the western hemisphere, possibly, but not for the Algonquian peoples. Maybe a couple of hundred thousand, perhaps more, but certainly not "hundreds of millions". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingervlad ( talk • contribs) 22:56, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
We can find, in this article, both plural forms: The Algonquian are one of the most [...] / The Algonquians of New England [...] Which one is correct? both are? Kintaro ( talk) 22:29, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
To add to article: where are the Algonquian peoples/languages believed to have originated? 76.189.141.37 ( talk) 04:09, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
(3 years later) To add to article: where are the Algonquian peoples/languages believed to have originated? 173.88.246.138 ( talk) 02:38, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
The article contains this sentence:
"The Ojibwe cultivated wild rice"
If they cultivated it, then it wasn't wild. Perhaps this could be remedied by giving the genus and species of the plant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.24.5.76 ( talk) 18:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
The sentence is indeed incorrect. In the modern era, Red Lake Nation cultivates wild rice (also known as manoomin; Zizania palustris; however, it would be more correct to say that the Ojibwe harvested wild rice from lakes and rivers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:446:4300:2770:8C49:281:4333:B9F3 ( talk) 14:21, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
The article contains the statement
"Northerners developed a practice of going hungry for several days at a time. Historians hypothesize that this practice kept the population down, according to Liebig's law."
It's not at all clear how the practice of voluntary fasting relates to a limiting factor (Liebig's law) and population regulation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.24.5.76 ( talk) 18:32, 8 February 2018 (UTC)