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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

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 Nuttall, Zelia

Thus the Minnetaris are highly dolicho; the Poncas and Osages sub-brachy; the Algonquians variable, while the Siouans oscillate widely round a mesaticephalous mean.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

In 1614 went to France; returned in 1625, and spent the remainder of his life in mission work among the Algonquians and Montagnais.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various