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

Usage examples of algonquin.

He is popular among the Abnaki, Algonquin, Penobscot, and Wabanaki tribes, and the spelling of his name varies from Glooscap to Gluscabe, Gluscabi, Gluskab, etc.

Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

But whether it can ever be satisfactorily demonstrated that the Norse explorers came in contact with Algonquin, Micmac, or Beothuk Indians, and just where they landed, are not matters of essential importance.

Iroquois and Manahoac peoples are west and north of the fall line for the most part, the Algonquin, east of it.

There were a number of Indians of the various tribes: Iroquois, Huron, Nipissing, Algonquin and Abenaki, a group of them seemingly hunting for something.

The northern shore of Lake Nipissing is one of the prettiest places in Ontario, but Lakeshore Drive, which runs along the top of the inlet that gives Algonquin Bay its name, could have been designed for the sole purpose of keeping this fact from the public.

The bottom of Bradley Street, where it curves round a set of low-lying hills that embrace the northern shore of Lake Nipissing, is where the snow trucks of Algonquin Bay dump their dune-sized loads.

Weapemeoc Indians, native to what is now North Carolina, were, linguistically, part of the Algonquin nation and were related to the Powhatans, the Chowans and the Pamlico tribes in the Mid-Atlantic portion of the United States.

Penobscot, Algonquin, Huron, Ojibway, Mohawk, Yakima, Okanagan, Tlingit, Chinook, Beaver, Tanana, Cree, Bannock, Crow, Shoshone, Cheyenne.

He gave seven birdcalls in rapid succession, then paused, scribbling as the responses came in from Algonquin Park.

The race was to be between the Algonquin, eight-oared boat with outriggers, rowed by young men, students of Stoughton University, and the Atalanta, also eight-oared and outrigger boat, by young ladies from the Corinna Institute.

Algonquin Round Table in action, but I would have preferred to go up against Iraqi artillery or kick down a crackhouse door rather than try to approach it.

For the next five days, no leaf would go unsketched, no soil would go unsampled, no wildlife unstudied in all of huge Algonquin Park.

Away sprang the Atalanta, and far behind her leaped the Algonquin, her oars bending like so many long Indian bows as their blades flashed through the water.

MY DEAREST EUTHYMIA,--Who would have thought, when you broke your oar as the Atalanta flashed by the Algonquin, last June, that before the roses came again you would find yourself the wife of a fine scholar and grand gentleman, and the head of a household such as that of which you are the mistress?