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Ojibwa   /oʊdʒˈɪbwə/   Listen
Ojibwa

noun
1.
A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior.  Synonyms: Chippewa, Ojibway.
2.
The Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa.  Synonyms: Chippewa, Ojibway.






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"Ojibwa" Quotes from Famous Books



... Indian too—Geezigut, an Ojibwa—we called him Injin Charley. He was my first friend in the north woods. He helped me get my timber. This spring he killed a man—a good job, too—and is hiding now. I wish I knew where he is. But we'll see him some day. He'll come back when ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... from another quarter. Charles Langlade, a young French trader married to a squaw at Green Bay, and strong in influence with the tribes of that region, came down the lakes from Michillimackinac with a fleet of canoes manned by two hundred and fifty Ottawa and Ojibwa warriors; stopped a while at Detroit; then embarked again, paddled up the Maumee to Raymond's fort at the portage, and led his greased and painted rabble through the forest to attack the Demoiselle and his English friends. ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman



Words linked to "Ojibwa" :   Buffalo Indian, Algonquian, Algonquian language, Plains Indian, Algonquin, Chippewa, Ojibway



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