Nipissing
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Nipissings,
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Nippissing
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Lake Nipissing, a lake in southeastern Canada, in Ontario, north of Georgian Bay. 330 sq. mi. (855 sq. km).
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a member of one of the First Nations of Ontario, a division of the Ojibwe people, historically living along the northern shore of Lake Nipissing.
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Etymology
Origin of Nipissing
First recorded in 1740–50; from French Nipissingue, from Ojibwe Nipissink, the name of Lake Nipissing
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Indigenous people are used to be invisible, keeping our heads down Bear Witness “My reserve, Nipissing, was out of walking distance to the nearest town,” Campeau said.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2015
Some American Red Cross divisions use the stuffed red blood cell in school presentations, and the Education Centre Library serving Ontario's Canadore College and Nipissing University has dozens of Giant Microbes in its lending inventory.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2010
Michael Friedsam, president of Altman's department store; Ellis P. Earle, president of Nipissing Mines, great Canadian producers of silver, cobalt, nickel, arsenic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Free grants and homesteads to actual settlers in the districts of Algoma and Nipissing, and of certain lands between the River Ottawa and the Georgian Bay, are also free from creditor's claims.
From How to Collect a Doctor Bill by Frank P. Davis
Still she was deeply interested in the plans of the Récollet fathers, who were establishing missions among the Hurons and the Nipissings, and learning the languages.
From A Little Girl in Old Quebec by Amanda Minnie Douglas
They are clothed with deer and beaver skins, which they obtain from the Algonquins and Nipissings in exchange for Indian corn and meal.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
"You slept here every night, and if you went to the Nipissings, you went in a dream."
From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Strange stories were current among the Nipissings of a people without hair and without beards, who came from the West to trade with a tribe beyond the Great Lakes.
From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Francis Parkman
His audience looked grave, for they were but cold and jealous friends of the Nipissings.
From Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
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