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Iroquois to press on the Ojibwa with a<br />

variety of results. Some temporarily withdrew<br />

westward <strong>and</strong> others retaliated against the<br />

Iroquois. However, these previously<br />

politically autonomous Algonquian groups saw<br />

their population reduced by warfare,<br />

starvation, <strong>and</strong> European diseases. When this<br />

occurred they began the practice of<br />

amalgamating with other groups <strong>and</strong> in the<br />

process many lost their group identity. By<br />

the late seventeenth century the people<br />

remained but the names Amikwa, Marameg, <strong>and</strong><br />

Nikikouek had disappeared. In 1670 the Ojibwa<br />

at Sault Ste. Marie numbered only 150 <strong>and</strong><br />

even united with three other groups,<br />

numbering slightly more than 550. Throughout<br />

the seventeenth century, Sault Ste. Marie was<br />

the focal point for the native people living<br />

to the east, northwest <strong>and</strong> for the <strong>French</strong>-<br />

named Saulteaux who considered this site

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