Chippeway

American  

[chip-uh-wey] / ˈtʃɪp əˌweɪ /

noun

• Chippeways,
  plural
• Chippeway
  plural

1. Chippewa.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Chippeway
  plural
• Chippeways
  plural

Example Sentences

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Chippeway Chippeways

The Chippeway left his body and arms behind him, and under the direction of the old man entered upon the road to the Blissful Island.

From Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian by Anonymous

In the catalogue of the collection printed in London, 1848, it appears as "334, Chippeway Village and Dog Feast at the Falls of St. Anthony; lodges built with birch-bark; Upper Mississippi."

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell

“Take the wise four-legged man,” said the old Chippeway, “and pull from his jaws seven of his teeth.”

From Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian by Anonymous

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

But no artifice of the Athapuscow could elude the well-trained eye of the Chippeway.

From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by V. V. Vide

Then he has been among the Chippeways 33 yrs.

From Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 by Marcus L. Hansen

With the Chippeways, also, the bachelor is a butt for wit and sarcasm.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain

In conformity with the intimation received, and the law laid down by the American Government, and promulgated by the Indian agent, the Chippeways applied for redress.

From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

The Board of Missions connected with the Presbyterian church sustain missions among the Creeks, the Iowas and Sacs, and the Chippeways and Ottawas; three missionaries and their wives and several teachers are employed.

From History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond) Summers

You Saulks—you Chippeways, and all you of different nations, we are all one.

From History of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher