The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Morton declared that the local Algonquians had much to offer to the English and could show the colonists how to make a profit from the land.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 23, 2011
Index: Ch Accompanies Champlain to Quebec, 41; joins Algonquians to learn their language, 63; interpreter of Algonquian language, 144; sides with the Kirkes, 194; subsequent career, 203.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
The dispersion area for the Algonquians was farther north about the Great Lakes and perhaps also the St Lawrence, and that for the Eskimo about Hudson Bay or between it and the Mackenzie river.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Came to Canada, 1618, and the same year sent to the Algonquians of Allumette Island, on the Ottawa, to learn their language.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
L Zeal of the missionaries compared with that of the Apostles, 61; among the Iroquois, 64-67; wide extension of, 103; to the Algonquians, destroyed by drunkenness, 175.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
