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/æɫˈɡɑŋkiən/
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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
How To Use Algonquian In A Sentence
- This is suggestive of a patrilocal, exogamous marriage pattern consistent with documented historic Algonquian practices in the region.
- Next to be mentioned are the loanwords for various Indian ceremonies, which include: busk a Creek festival of first fruits and purification that was celebrated when the first green corn was edible and that marked the beginning of a new year. cantico a ceremonial dance of the Algonquian Indians of the Atlantic seaboard. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
- Seeking to take the project further, Jessie applied for a research fellowship in 1996 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, where she worked with renowned scholars in Algonquian languages, including the late Ken Hale and Norvin Richards. Nataly Kelly: A Language Comes Home for Thanksgiving
- The Algonquian term manitou, the Iroquoian orenda, and the Siouan wakanda all refer to it.
- Bear representations are evident, and several fragments appear to represent Mishipishu, the principal manitou of the Algonquian underworld.
- Among these tribes the creation and control of the world and the things thereof are ascribed to "wa-kan-da" (the term varying somewhat from tribe to tribe), just as among the Algonquian tribes omnipotence was assigned to "ma-ni-do" ( "Manito the Mighty" of The Siouan Indians
- Along with shipments of tobacco grown in America, English-speakers would soon be in receipt of Native American words such as the Algonquian powwow and moccasin.viii But given that Renaissance is yet another borrowed term, French for “rebirth,” perhaps Cheke would have preferred that we refer to his day, more “natively,” as the Birthagaindom? The English Is Coming!
- Is there a way to turn the Kristianos against the Coosa, or perhaps the Algonquian Nations up north? Fire The Sky
- 1 Strong, Captive selves, captivating others: the politics and poetics of colonial American capitivity narratives (1999), p.37 (see link): "The English word Eskimo derives from a pejorative Algonquian term meaning 'raw meat eater,' and Inuit is the preferred term in the Eastern Arctic. Archive 2008-05-01
- Three major language families were represented in North Carolina: Iroquoian, Siouan, and Algonquian. History of American Women
