Chippeway
Americannoun
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Chippeways,
plural
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Chippeway
plural
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Running their own canoes gently up on the sandy beach, they pulled the empty Chippeway canoes a little further up on shore and looked about them.
From Hawk Eye by David Cory
The Chippeway began to tell him who he was, and why he had come thither, but the aged man stopped him, telling him he knew upon what errand he was bent.
From Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian by Anonymous
The Chippeway, for instance, has three pronouns of the third person, which designate the near and the remote antecedents with the most lucid accuracy.
From American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them by Daniel Garrison Brinton
"I will speak to her in her own language, if she is a Chippeway or of any of the tribes about here, for they all have the same dialect," said Captain Sinclair.
From The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat
“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
You Saulks—you Chippeways, and all you of different nations, we are all one.
From History of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Chippeways came to my house, about sixty in number, and headed by Mina-va-va-na, their chief.
From Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller
George had, however, also lived a great deal among Indians, and been at the great battle of the Chippeways and Sioux, and was full of interesting and naïve discourse.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
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
Both the Chippeways fired, and Beloved Hail fell.
From Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
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