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Also Known As Algonkian • Algonquian • Algonkin

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Crop fertility dance of an Algonkian tribe in Virginia, detail of an engraving by Theodor de Bry after a watercolour by John White, 1590. In the collection of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History ans Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 31x22 cm.
Distribution of American Subarctic cultures
Eastern Woodlands Indians
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John Cooper
John M. Cooper
American anthropologist
Frank Gouldsmith Speck
American anthropologist

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