In west-to-east order, the subsequent branchings were:Arapaho-Gros Ventre, Cree-Montagnais, Menominee, and Cheyenne; then the core Great Lakes languages: (Ojibwe–Potawatomi, Shawnee, Sauk–Fox–Kickapoo, and Miami–Illinois); and. finally, Proto-Eastern Algonquian.
