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User:Leo1410 have begun a survey of all thing associated with the Anishinaabe peoples. Please visit (and possibly add, edit) to User:Leo1410/Anishinaabe, or from there create a new article. Miigwech CJLippert 05:35, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Map needed

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A map of the area would be useful, especially as it was a watershed divide and major trade crossroads.Parkwells (talk) 19:32, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kinship system

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The head man is described as "patriarchal", but the article does not way whether the Nipissing had a matriarchal kinship system, as did many Algonquian nations, or patrilineal. This determined the lines of descent and inheritance.Parkwells (talk) 19:32, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jean Nicolet de Bellbourne

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In the early 1600s Jean Nicolet was under the employ of Samuel de Champlain. Nicolet stayed with the Nipissing for 8-9years. Taking a native partner Bahmahmaadjimiwin and having a child , Marie Euphrasine Madalane Nicolet. She was one of the first Métis people. 2001:569:BC2A:DE00:E09A:DFAD:70E9:18D5 (talk) 15:36, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]