What is the meaning of algonquin?

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; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast.
  • Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.

adjective

  • Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language.
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