Chippeway
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Chippeways,
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Chippeway
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The languages prevalent in the adjacent country would be the Sioux, and the Chippeway branch of the Algonquino.
From Notes and Queries, Number 239, May 27, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
Having brought the sun and moon to the earth, the old man Chippeway rested, and made no more expeditions.
From Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian by Anonymous
There are, in the Chippeway Language, ten parts of Speech, namely, the article, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the verb, the participle, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
From Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words by John Summerfield
He rendered eminent services in the battles of Chippeway, Bridgewater, and Lundy's Lane, making himself conspicuous by his courageous and intrepid conduct.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
The command of an expedition was then given to a traveller named Schoolcraft, who had in the previous year explored the Chippeway country, north-west of Lake Superior.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
Good Road hates the Chippeways, but he fell in love with one of their descendants, and married her.
From Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
All the Ohio tribes shared in the glory of this greatest victory of their race,—Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandots, Ottawas, Chippeways, and Pottawottomies.
From Stories Of Ohio by William Dean Howells
The Chippeways landed occasionally, to examine whether any of the Sioux had recently visited that quarter.
From Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk by Benjamin Drake
This bark contained the answer of the Sioux nation, to overtures which the Chippeways had made, on Governor Cass' offer of mediation:—which overtures had been found and taken off by a party of the Sioux.
From Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk by Benjamin Drake
Their common arms are bow and arrow, shield, lance, and a weapon called by the Chippeways, by whom it was formerly used, the poggamoggon.
From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely
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