Ojibway
Americannoun
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Ojibways,
plural
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Ojibway
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
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
These societies spread well beyond the Ojibway – to Oka and to Gustafsen Lake and to the Trans Mountain pipeline disputes.
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
Henry Dodge, of Wisconsin, on the part of the national government, was appointed to negotiate with the Ojibways.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
Will you and your husbands and Miss Longfellow come and see us and stay in our royal wigwams on an island in Hiawatha’s playground, in the land of the Ojibways?
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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 William Henry Carman Folsom
Frederick Burton died several years ago, immediately after the publication of his interesting work on the music of the Ojibways, which is fully illustrated with songs collected and in some instances harmonized by himself.
From The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American by Charles Alexander Eastman
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