Algonquin (Noun)
Meaning 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.
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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- Arapaho
- Blackfoot
- Massachuset
- Algonkian
- Fox
- Kickapoo
- Menomini
- Abnaki
- Cheyenne
- Micmac
- Illinois
- Malecite
- Powhatan
- Pamlico
- Nanticoke
- Ojibwa
- Potawatomi
- Delaware
- Mohican
- Cree
- Chippewa
- Shawnee