Algonquin vs Native American

Native American vs Algonquin

Algonquin and Native American both are nouns.

Algonquin and Native American both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Algonquin	Yes	Yes	No	No
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Native American is a hypernym of Algonquin; that is, Native American is a word with a broader meaning than Algonquin:

Algonquin: a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived

Other hypernyms of Algonquin include Amerindian.

Algonquin (noun)	Native American (noun)
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains	any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

Algonquin (adjective)	Native American (adjective)
of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language	of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Algonquin and Native American

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