Well, I was talking about human language. 
re: famous Americans with NA ancestry not Algonquian… How could I have forgotten Senator Ben Knighthorse Campbell, who is part Cheyenne.
I suspect the reason that more famous Americans have some Algonquian ancestry than any other Native American group is that Algonquian territory happened to coincide with the first places in the U.S. that British colonists happened to reach. There was a certain amount of intermarriage with them then even before the American Revolution. Descendants of these marriages thus often have only a small proportion of Native American ancestry, while descendants of the groups from farther west tend to have a larger proportion of it.
Yes, those East Coasters got a big head start over those Americans encountering the more Western tribes a century or so later. But, interestingly, looking at Pocahontas’ line we can see that it was pretty precarious, and could easily have ended. She had one son (and only one son) who in turn had only one daughter (at least how survived until adulthood). That’s two generations where one early death would have ended it right there.
Incidentally, it’s Ben Nighthorse Campbell, not Knighthorse.
I could have been worse. I could have spelled it Knighthoarse.
Shit, start with a Polish-Chinese Jewish woman and you’ve got half the quotas…
Technically, the Cheyenne are Algonquian; the Cheyenne and Arapaho are probably the westernmost of the Algonquian peoples.
Charles Curtis was of Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi descent; the Potawatomi are an Algonquian group, but the Kaw and Osage are Siouan groups.
Good catch! I did not know that, but I do now!