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.
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
of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
Any of various Native American peoples inhabiting the Ottawa River valley of Quebec and Ontario. The family of languages related to the Ojibwa language spoken by the peoples called Algonquin.
The United States of the North American Indians before their destruction by the Christians, O-pah-Egoquim, 369.48.
Originally, a Native nation that used to live in the thick forest areas on either side of the upper Ottawa River in Canada. It was almost completely wiped out by the Iroquois and by European diseases. They lived in villages and practiced farming.