The geographic location of Algonquian-speaking people in North America prior to European settlementsA 16th-century sketch of the Algonquian village of Pomeiock near the present-day Outer Banks in North Carolina[1]
Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by hunting and fishing, although many of them supplemented their diet by cultivating corn, beans and squash (the "Three Sisters"). The Ojibwe cultivated wild rice.[3]