Algonquin Synonyms

ăl-gŏngkwĭn, -kĭn
Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. algonquian
  2. Algonquian language
Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. algonquian
  2. algonkian

Algonquin Sentence Examples

  • The Indians of central Alberta are chiefly plain Crees, a tribe of Algonquin stock.

  • So powerful were these teachings that the tribes of the Algonquin peoples formed the Iroquois confederacy.

  • In southern Alberta are several thousands of Indians on reserves south and west of Calgary, consisting of the Blackfoots of Algonquin stock, Sarcees, Piegans and a few Assiniboins.

  • Of these the most extensive are the Rocky Mountains Park at Banff, Alberta, owned by the Dominion government, and the "Algonquin National Park," north-east of Lake Simcoe, the property of Ontario.

  • The Algonquin Manibozho and Quetzalcoatl of Mexico stand for a whole group of typical personalities in North and Central America.

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