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"Algonquian" (with a second "a") is not the name of a tribe.
It is the name of a very large family of languages, all distantly related to each other, spoken by many different tribes including some on the Plains, some in the far north woodlands, some around the Great Lakes and others along the east coast of North America. These include the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Sauk and Fox, Illinois, Miami, Ojibwe, Cree, Shawnee, Delaware, Abenaki, Mahican, Mohegan, Pequot, Wampanoag, Powhatan and many more.
The word Algonquian means "like the Algonkin tribe", since they have been chosen as a typical representative of this large language group. The Algonkin are a small ribe living along the ottawa river valley in Canada. At first contact they numbered around 6,000 ; today there are perhaps 8,000, still living in small, widely dispersed communities.
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What did the Algonquian tribe follow?
There is no such thing as the Algonquian tribe. The term Algonquian applies to a very large family of distantly-related languages spoken by tribes across the entire North American continent. So, for example, the Arapaho (who spoke an Algonquian language) lived on the Great Plains and lived entirely different lifestyles to the Powhatan (another Algonquian-speaking group) who lived in the tidewater areas of Virginia.
What was the Indian tribe name that lived in Virginia?
The Algonquian but there were also Siouan and Iroqjois.
What language did the native speak at Jamestown?
The native people at Jamestown primarily spoke Algonquian languages. The Powhatan tribe, which was the dominant tribe in the area, spoke a version of Algonquian.
What kind of food did the Coharie tribe eat?
what did the algonquian tribe eat
What is the Algonquian tribe known for?
sucking dick
Was Pocahontas part of the Algonquian tribe?
Algonquian is not a tribe, it's a large grouping of tribes that speak Algonquian languages. Tribes in the Powhatan confederacy, which Pocahontas was part of, spoke an Algonquian dialect. That language is now extinct, though there are efforts to reconstruct it, which means they have an approximation of it based on historical word lists and still-existing Algonquian dialects.
Which Algonquian tribes were in Long Island?
Which Algonquian tribe was located in what in now known as Long Island?
What was the first Native American Indian tribe to settal in Maryland?
Algonquian tribe
Who lived in wigwms?
The Algonquian Indians did.
What Indian tribe did the word Connecticut come from?
Algonquian
What northern tribe spoke algonquian?
mohawk and seneca
When was the beginning of the Algonquian Indian Tribe?
Around 1120.
