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Algonquin   /ælgˈɑŋkwɪn/   Listen
Algonquin

noun
1.
A member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast.  Synonym: Algonquian.
2.
Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.  Synonyms: Algonquian, Algonquian language.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language.  Synonyms: Algonkian, Algonquian.






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"Algonquin" Quotes from Famous Books



... march into Kansas; Puebla, clearly designating that strange people whose cliff dwellings are at this hour one of the rarest studies in American archaeology. On another branch of this same road: Olathe, an Indian name; Ottawa; Algonquin, for "trader," Chanute, from an Indian chief, who was a local celebrity; Elk Falls, referring to those days when this river (the Elk) was famous for that species of graceful motion called the elk; farther are Indian Chief and White Deer, names of evident ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle

... of the paws of the bear they say there is a good deal of the human in them. So they talk about them as holding councils and taking advice one from another. And when they attack them, especially the Indians of these great Algonquin tribes, they always address them as Mr Bear, and apologise to them for being under the ...
— Three Boys in the Wild North Land • Egerton Ryerson Young

... flame with whom the old sinner has lit his fires in Canada, for there was Caroline, the Algonquin maid, not to mention others. Bigot, the story goes, had been hunting and, be it conceded, he is, for a Frenchman, a sound shot, and had lost himself in the wilds. Presently, while he pondered on his course, there appeared ...
— The Black Colonel • James Milne

... of spring Champlain's activity of disposition did not suffer him to await the coming of Pontegrave from France. He set out at once up the St. Lawrence. Meeting parties of Indians belonging to Algonquin and Huron tribes, he entered into friendly communication with them. Between these tribes and the Iroquois, or Five Nations, a state of warfare subsisted. Champlain, on his part, desired to secure the friendship of those natives who were to be the more immediate ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various

... this way," announced an Algonquin, in his broken French. He had been employed about the fort and ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas


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