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1. 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
   - Algonquin
    
2. Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
   - Algonquin, Algonquian language

1. Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
   - Algonkian, Algonquin

Derived forms: Algonquians

Type of: American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian, Amerindian language, Indian, Native American, Red Indian [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Algonquian