Ojibway
Americannoun
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Origin of Ojibway
See Ojibwe ( def. )
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The tribes are descended from Odawa and Ojibway nations, described collectively as Anishinaabek, that under the treaty ceded lands comprising nearly 40% of Michigan’s eventual territory.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Misty Rose Nace, 45, who is part of the Brokenhead Ojibway and the Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nations in Canada, came from her home in Mechanicsville, Pa., with her sons to dance at the powwow.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2023
INAATE/SE/ An ancient Ojibway story based on a prophecy predicting the arrival of Europeans is reimagined in Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil’s 2016 mix of documentary, narrative and experimental film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2019
But the Ojibway Warrior Society was based in a single community.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2018
“We’ll do like the Ojibway Indians. We’ll bend saplings from one side to the other to form a dome—a wigwam—and we’ll cover it with bark, just like they did.”
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Ojibways called it mang, or the most handsome of birds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ojibways lived in constant fear, and the place was soon deserted.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
The other two ran for help but before they could return the Ojibways were on the way back to the island.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
Chief Hole-in-the-Day of the Ojibways and Spotted Tail of the Brule Sioux were both killed by tribesmen for breaking the rule of their respective tribes and accepting favors from the Government.
From The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American by Eastman, Charles Alexander
In July of that year he took a party of Ojibways and one Dakota to Montreal, for the purpose of impressing upon them the importance and strength of France.
From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene)
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