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Definition of: Algonquian
(al·gong′kē·ən, -kwē·ən) noun
1. A large linguistic stock of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting the territory from Hudson Bay south to North Carolina and Tennessee, east of the Mississippi, including the Algonquin, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Ojibwa, Micmac, Sauk, Delaware, Massachuset, and Shawnee tribes.
2. A member of one of the tribes belonging to this stock.
—adjective Of or pertaining to the Algonquian family.
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