Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet.

An Algonquian Indian.

A family of languages spoken by American Indians who lived historically in an area extending from Labrador westward to the Rocky Mountains, and southward from Michigan to Illinois.

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

a stock of native languages spoken from Labrador and westward to the Great Plains

An anthropological classification for 33 distinct tribes including the Wampanoag, Abenaki, and Ojibway who are part of the Algonquian language group. This classification does not include the Iroquois.