The Mission of Adayes, so called from its proximity to the home of the tribe, was established in 1715.  In 1792 there was a partial emigration of the Adai to the number of fourteen families to a site south of San Antonio de Bejar, southwest Texas, where apparently they amalgamated with the surrounding Indian population and were lost sight of. (From documents preserved at the City Hall, San Antonio, and examined by Mr. Gatschet in December, 1886.) The Adai who were left in their old homes numbered one hundred in 1802, according to Baudry de Lozieres.  According to Sibley, in 1809 there were only “twenty men of them remaining, but more women.”  In 1820 Morse mentions only thirty survivors.

ALGONQUIAN FAMILY.

  > Algonkin-Lenape, Gallatin in Trans.  Am.  Antiq.  Soc., II, 23, 305,
  1836.  Berghaus (1845), Physik.  Atlas, map 17, 1848.  Ibid, 1852.

  > Algonquin, Bancroft, Hist.  U.S., III, 337, 1840.  Prichard Phys. 
  Hist.  Mankind, V, 381, 1847 (follows Gallatin).

  > Algonkins, Gallatin in Trans.  Am.  Eth.  Soc., II, pt. 1, xcix, 77,
  1848.  Gallatin in Schoolcraft Ind.  Tribes, III, 401, 1853.

> Algonkin, Turner in Pac.  R. R. Rept., III, pt. 3, 55, 1856 (gives Delaware and Shawnee vocabs.).  Hayden, Cont.  Eth. and Phil.  Missouri Inds., 232, 1862 (treats only of Crees, Blackfeet, Shyennes).  Hale in Am.  Antiq., 112, April, 1883 (treated with reference to migration).

< Algonkin, Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc., Lond., 1856 (adds to Gallatin’s list of 1836 the Bethuck, Shyenne, Blackfoot, and Arrapaho).  Latham, Opuscula, 327, 1860 (as in preceding).  Latham, Elements Comp.  Phil, 447, 1862.

  < Algonquin, Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp., (Cent. and S. Am.), 460,
  465, 1878 (list includes the Maquas, an Iroquois tribe).

  > Saskatschawiner, Berghaus, Physik.  Atlas, map 17, 1848 (probably
  designates the Arapaho).

  > Arapahoes, Berghaus, Physik.  Atlas, map 17, 1852.

  X Algonkin und Beothuk, Berghaus, Physik.  Atlas, map 72, 1887.

Derivation:  Contracted from Algomequin, an Algonkin word, signifying “those on the other side of the river,” i.e., the St. Lawrence River.

ALGONQUIAN AREA.

The area formerly occupied by the Algonquian family was more extensive than that of any other linguistic stock in North America, their territory reaching from Labrador to the Rocky Mountains, and from Churchill River of Hudson Bay as far south at least as Pamlico Sound of North Carolina.  In the eastern part of this territory was an area occupied by Iroquoian tribes, surrounded on almost all sides by their Algonquian neighbors.  On the south the Algonquian tribes were bordered by those of Iroquoian and Siouan (Catawba) stock, on the southwest and west by the Muskhogean