It is also most mixed with words from the Cree dialect of the Algonkin.
These picture writings were understood and could be read by the various branches of the Algonkin stock.
As elsewhere stated the Delawares are, in the duration of their separate existence, one of the oldest of the Algonkin tribes.
Now "ouinepeg" was an Algonkin term meaning "men of (or from) the fetid (or bad-smelling) water."
It is the Pish-tah-te-koosh of the Algonkin tribes, "reckoned the fleetest animal in the prairie country about the Assiniboin."
