_The Iroquois._--The single and important exception to the Algonkin population of the Canadas is made by the existence of certain members of the great Iroquois class on the New York frontier; a class falling into two divisions. The _northern_ Iroquois belong to New York and Pennsylvania, the _southern_ to the Carolinas. The former of these two falls into two great confederations, and into several unconfederate tribes. The chief of the unconfederate tribes are the now extinct _Mynkasar_ and _Cochnowagoes_--extinct, unless either or both be represented by a small remnant mentioned by Schoolcraft, in his great work on the Indian tribes, now in the course of publication, under the sanction of Congress, as the _St. Regis Indians_. Of the second confederation the leading members were the _Wyandots_, or _Hurons_, of the parts between Lakes Simcoe, Huron, and Erie. The first was that of the famous and formidable _Mohawks_. To these add the _Senekas_, the _Onondagos_, the _Cayugas_, and the _Oneidas_, and you have the _Five_ Nations. Then add, as a later accession, from the southern Iroquois, the _Tuskaroras_, and the _Six_ Nations are formed. Between these two there was war _even to the knife_; the greater portion of the Wyandot league belonging to the Algonkin class. Nevertheless, a few representatives of the whole seven tribes[74] still remain extant, their present locality--a reserve--being the triangular peninsula which was the original Huron area. Again, in the present site of Montreal, the earlier occupants were the _Hochelaga_; an Iroquois tribe also. _The Sioux._--In tracing the Nelson River from its embouchure in Hudson's Bay, towards its source in the Rocky Mountains, we reach Lake Winnepeg, and the Red River Settlement--the Red River rising within the boundary of the United States, flowing from south to north, and receiving, as a feeder, the Assineboin. Now the Valley of the Assineboin is an interesting ethnological locality.