montagnais in English

noun
1
a member of an American Indian people living in a vast area of Canada from north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the southern shores of Hudson Bay.
However, every summer Québec played host to approximately fifteen hundred Algonquins and Montagnais .
2
the Algonquian language of the Montagnais, closely related to Cree.
In the end, while he admitted that he spoke Montagnais .
adjective
1
relating to the Montagnais or their language.
The Montagnais man awaits the slight change in the weather that signals the coming of winter in a night-long vigil.

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1. In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the Montagnais people to their east, and after that the Algonquins and the Montagnais people fought the Iroquois together

2. ‘Montagnais, Algonkins and Hurons engaged in exchange involving goods, people, and ideas with both kinds of French.’ More example sentences ‘Soon, Montagnais, Algonquins, Hurons, and French, and how many more, would form a single people.’

3. ‘Montagnais, Algonkins and Hurons engaged in exchange involving goods, people, and ideas with both kinds of French.’

4. Algonquin vs Iroqouis The Algonquins Formed an alliance with the Montagnais to fight with the Iroqouis

5. Cree / ˈ k r iː / (also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador