Ojibwe

American  

[oh-jib-wey, -wuh] / oʊˈdʒɪb weɪ, -wə /

Also Ojibwa,

noun

PLURAL

Ojibwes

PLURAL

Ojibwe

1. a member of a large tribe of North American Indians found in Canada and the United States, principally in the region around Lakes Huron and Superior but extending as far west as Saskatchewan and North Dakota.

2. Also called Ojibwemowin.  an Algonquian language used by the Ojibwe, Algonquin, and Ottawa peoples.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Ojibwe or their language.

Etymology

Origin of Ojibwe

An Americanism dating back to 1665–75; from Ojibwe očipwe·, a self-designation of uncertain meaning]

Example Sentences

Across the Great Lakes, Ojibwe and Menomini worked lumber camps.

From The Wall Street Journal

The cantata is based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tale of an Ojibwe warrior in what is now Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal

For thousands of years, the site on which the city would be built was a trading crossroads for indigenous people such as the Potawatomi, the Illinois and the Ojibwe, who trod narrow ridges of glacial debris to cross the region’s wetlands.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was there, in an Ojibwe community in northern Wisconsin, that Pember’s mother, Bernice Rabideaux, was born a century ago.

From Los Angeles Times

Bibeau listed manoomin, Ojibwe for wild rice, as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources, arguing that the rice had rights to clean water and habitat that would be jeopardized by the pipeline and the oil spill risks it would bring.

From Salon