Algonquin (disambiguation)
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Algonquin is the name of a Native American tribe and some places in the United States of America and Canada.
Native Americans:
- The Algonquian languages are a large phylum of Native American languages in eastern North America.
- Algonquian peoples are those Native American tribes speaking Algonquian languages.
- The Algonquin tribe is one tribe within the larger Algonquian group.
- The Algonquin language is the language of the Algonquin tribe.
(In all of the above cases, spellings in k and qu are equally acceptable. The variant Algonqui(a)n seems to be more common in the United States, while Algonki(a)n seems to be more common in English Canada.)
Place names:
- Algonquin, Illinois
- Algonquin, Maryland
- Algonquin Park is a Provincial Park in Ontario
- Algonguin Island is part of Toronto, Ontario
- Algonquin Park, Manitoba
- South Algonquin, Ontario
- Algonquin College is located in and around Ottawa, Ontario.
- The Algonquin Hotel is in New York City.
Other:
- The Algonquin Round Table was an assemblage of literati that met at the Algonquin Hotel.
- "USS Algonquin" was the former name of the USS Accomac, a harbor tug of the United States Navy.