 While the other Anicinàpe peoples continued their journey up the St. Lawrence River, the Algonquins settled along the "Kitcisìpi" (Ottawa River), an important highway for commerce, cultural exchange, and transportation from time immemorial.A distinct Algonquin identity, though, was not realized until after the dividing of the Anicinàpek at the "Third Stopping Place", estimated at about 2,000 years ago near present-day Detroit.According to their tradition, and from recordings in "wiigwaasabak" (birch bark scrolls), Ojibwe (an Algonquian-speaking people) came from the eastern areas of North America, or Turtle Island, and from along the east coast.