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Algonquian   /ælgˈɑŋkiən/   Listen
Algonquian

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: Algonquin.
2.
Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.  Synonyms: Algonquian language, Algonquin.





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... Algonquian group, which occupied the rest of what is now the United States east of the Mississippi, besides the larger part of Canada. In this group were the Mohegans, Pequots, and Narragansetts of New England; the Delawares; the Powhatans of Virginia; the Shawnees of the Ohio valley, and many others ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster


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