Crossword clues for algonquin
algonquin
- Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
- 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
- Muddle along with one of five Canadian people
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Algonquin \Al*gon"quin\, Algonkin \Al*gon"kin\, n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one of an Indian people living near the Ottawa River in Canada, 1620s, from French Algonquin, perhaps a contraction of Algoumequin, from Micmac algoomeaking "at the place of spearing fish and eels." But Bright suggests Maliseet (Algonquian) elægomogwik "they are our relatives or allies."\n
\nAlgonquian (1885) was the name taken by ethnologists to describe a large group of North American Indian peoples, including this tribe. Algonquin Hotel (59 W. 44th St., Manhattan) opened 1902 and named by manager Frank Case for the tribe that had lived in that area. A circle of journalists, authors, critics, and wits began meeting there daily in 1919 and continued through the twenties; they called themselves "The Vicious Circle," but to others they became "The Round Table."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 7952
Land area (2000): 9.832020 sq. miles (25.464813 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.163586 sq. miles (0.423687 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.995606 sq. miles (25.888500 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00685
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.162741 N, 88.302571 W
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Housing Units (2000): 606
Land area (2000): 1.067079 sq. miles (2.763721 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.048084 sq. miles (5.304512 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.115163 sq. miles (8.068233 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00712
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 38.584385 N, 76.096703 W
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Wikipedia
Algonquin or Algonquian—and the variation Algonki(a)n—may refer to:
Algonquin is a 2014 Canadian drama film written and directed by Jonathan Hayes.
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?