Associated with the Algonquin, these people lived along the Ottawa River downstream from the Allumette Island. After 1650 there was a disappearance of a large part of the Algonquin population due to diseases introduced by the Europeans and the war with the Iroquois Five Nations. The group was associated with Outaouais nation who briefly occupied the area after the passage of the Iroquois and before the return of the Algonquin, but it is estimated that they were part of the great Algonquin nation.
