North Bay Early Days #2
The Nipissing Tribes were too far north to rely on agriculture so they became hunters and gatherers. The family hunting grounds formed the basis of their social economic organization and intruders into the family hunting area were liable to be put to death. Although some of the neighbouring tribes were said to have feared the Nipissings for their sorcery, they were active in trade for a long time before the arrival of the Europeans.
They first became known to the French, in 1613.Nipissing Tribes had been attacked, by the Iroquois, and many of them slain , in 1650, they fled for safety to Lake la Langue Algonquine. They were a comparatively unwarlike people, firm friends of the French, readily accepting the Christian teachings of the missionaries. They had established home sites but were semi-nomadic, going south in autumn to the vicinity of the Hurons to fish and prepare food for the winter, which they passed among them. They cultivated the soil to a slight extent only, traded with the Cree in the north, and were much given to jugglery and shamanistic practices, on which account the Hurons and the whites called them Sorcerers. No reliable statistics in regard to their numbers have been recorded. The Indians now on a reservation on Lake Nipissing are officially classed as Chippewa; they numbered 162 in 1884 and 223 in 1906. A Nipissing division was called Miskouaha. Present Day population on the Dokis Reserve approximately 200.
They first became known to the French, in 1613.Nipissing Tribes had been attacked, by the Iroquois, and many of them slain , in 1650, they fled for safety to Lake la Langue Algonquine. They were a comparatively unwarlike people, firm friends of the French, readily accepting the Christian teachings of the missionaries. They had established home sites but were semi-nomadic, going south in autumn to the vicinity of the Hurons to fish and prepare food for the winter, which they passed among them. They cultivated the soil to a slight extent only, traded with the Cree in the north, and were much given to jugglery and shamanistic practices, on which account the Hurons and the whites called them Sorcerers. No reliable statistics in regard to their numbers have been recorded. The Indians now on a reservation on Lake Nipissing are officially classed as Chippewa; they numbered 162 in 1884 and 223 in 1906. A Nipissing division was called Miskouaha. Present Day population on the Dokis Reserve approximately 200.
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