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
Even for the Algonquians of Labrador a journey to the coast is a journey to the grave.
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
These clans, called by the Algonquians ‘totems,’ all bore the names of certain animals, with which the Indians held themselves to be mythologically connected—the bear, wolf, deer, porcupine, snake, hawk, large tortoise and small tortoise.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
