West and north of Lake Michigan were the Miamis, the Potawatomis, and the Fox Indians (the Saks or Sawkis).

Between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Superior were the _Cheyennes_ (Shians); between North and South Saskatchewan, the _Blackfeet_ or Siksika Indians (sections of which were also called Bloods, Paigans, Piegans, &c).
North of Lake Winnipeg, as far as Lake Athabaska, and almost from the Rocky Mountains to the shores of Hudson's Bay, were the widespread tribe of the _Kris_, or _Knistino_.[5] The Gros Ventres or Big Bellies--properly called _Atsina_--inhabited the southern part of the middle west, between the Saskatchewan and the Missouri basins; and the Monsoni or Maskegon were found in eastern Rupert Land.
[Footnote 4: See also pp.

156, 164, 186, and 199.

In this list I have put in italics the names of the tribes more important in history, and in capitals the principal group names.] [Footnote 5: Kinistino, Kiristineaux, Kilistino; called "Crees" or "Kris" for short.] All the above-enumerated tribes, except the Beothik indigenes of Newfoundland, belong to the great and widespread ALGONKIN group.
(Algonkin is a word derived from the "Algommequin" of Champlain.) In the valley of the St.Lawrence the French first encountered those Indians whom they called _Huron_.

This was a French word meaning "crested", because these people wore their hair in a great crest over the top and back of the head, which reminded the French of the appearance of a wild boar (_Hure_).