Montagnais Indians \(Quebec\)

Montagnais Indians \(Quebec\)
Montagnais Indians \(Quebec\)
The collective designation of a number of bands speaking dialects of a common language of Algonquian stock, and ranging over the sores of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf, from about the St. Maurice River to Cape Whittle, and inland to about the main divide at the heads of the rivers

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