Crossword clues for algonquian
algonquian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Algonquian \Al*gon"qui*an\, a. Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n. An Algonquian Indian.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Algonkian, 1885, an ethnologist's word, modified from Algonquin + -ian. Both forms of the name have been used as adjectives and nouns. An American-Indian language family spread over a wide area of northeast and north-central North America, from Nova Scotia (Micmac) to Montana (Cheyenne).
Usage examples of "algonquian".
Then there was the Algonquian burial ground where ghosts did a war dance and went out seeking scalps.
Not for the first time, Erik Hakkonsen stared in irritation at the heavy plate armor, as he stood sharpening the blade of his Algonquian war hatchet.
He could have used more underbrush, there were some Algonquian stunts for a hunted man to try, but at least the soft floor was noiseless under his sandals.
There was also considerable movement: the Blackfoot and Cheyenne, for example, began as eastern seaboard Indians, members of the Algonquian family, before pushing west into the plains.
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.
Originally it was a corruption of a term expressing enmity or contempt, applied to a part of the plains tribes by the forest-dwelling Algonquian Indians.
On the whole, the speech of the Siouan stock may be said to have been fairly developed, and may, with the Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Shoshonean, be regarded as typical for the portion of North America lying north of Mexico.
Ouemessourit, probably a corruption of their name by the Illinois tribe, with the characteristic Algonquian prefix.
But the Algonquian Indians he worked among possessed no written language.
Mohawks were Keepers of the Eastern Door, defending the Nations from the Algonquian tribes of New England.
He spoke English with a weird Algonquian accent that immediately placed him as a member of the Micmac tribe.
So the princess and the Viking were married and the Vikings and the Algonquians were as one people.
Algonquian, Athapascan, Iroquoian, Shoshonean, Siouan, and others of more limited extent.
The Yuroks spoke a language related to the Woodland Algonquian tribes of the northeastern United States, while the Karuk spoke Hokan, the oldest language in northwestern California, and the Hupa spoke the Athapaskan, which was a language common in the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest.
But with Erik's Algonquian war hatchet at his throat, he wasn't going to argue about taking them away from there.