ALGONQUINS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

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Part of speech: Adjective

of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

Part of speech: Noun

family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

Part of speech: Noun

a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada

Example: many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

Algonquin, Algonquian, Algonquian language