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- noun Plural form of
Algonkin .
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Black Robe is a novel unconcerned with political correctness on a P.C. theme—the effort by Jesuits to convert the Algonkins.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Black Robe is a novel unconcerned with political correctness on a P.C. theme—the effort by Jesuits to convert the Algonkins.
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There were some Eskimos, the ones not shot by fishermen, Algonkins, Nascapees, Englishmen and Scotch.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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There were some Eskimos, the ones not shot by fishermen, Algonkins, Nascapees, Englishmen and Scotch.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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< 71 > Their small size is frequently referred to, which would surely not be the case if they were describing the Algonkins that the English colonists found in the same section of country many years later.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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Here too we hunt, and trap, and eat berries of the undergrowth, like Algonkins or Tacitean Germans, many of whom had no more skill in cattle than Algonkins.
The Unity of Civilization Various
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But we have not the place to ourselves, like the tundra folk and the Algonkins.
The Unity of Civilization Various
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These were to rendezvous the next fall with the Algonkins, who were already on the spot to the number of 1,000.
The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot James H. Coyne
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They have been assigned, but upon what grounds does not appear, to the extensive family of Algonkins.
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Amerindians who strove to keep aloof from the fierce struggles between the Algonkins and Hurons on the one hand and the eastern Iroquois clans on the other.
Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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