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
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
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
Proceeding by the Georgian Bay, Lake Nipissing, the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, the fleet of canoes reached Quebec before the end of July, 1650.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
The effect of Iroquois hostilities on all the Algonquin tribes of Canada, from the Saguenay to the Lake of the Nipissings, had become frightfully apparent.
From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
The Nipissings and Algonkins, who were going on a war-party with Monsieur Belêtre, formed a line of their own accord, and saluted us with three volleys of musketry, and cries of joy without end.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
Nicolet, while living with the Nipissings, must have heard many stories of the strange people so much resembling the Chinese, and doubtless his curiosity was not less excited than was Champlain's.
From History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life by Consul Willshire Butterfield
Kikensick, chief of the Nipissings, rose in behalf of the Christian Indians, and addressed the heathen of the west.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
The story of the Cross was being carried even to the Algonquins and Nipissings of the upper Ottawa and Georgian Bay.
From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Thomas Guthrie Marquis
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