Ojibway
Americannoun
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Ojibways,
plural
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Ojibway
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Ojibway
See Ojibwe ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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
The work was carefully edited by Rev. Edward D. Neill, who added an appendix of 116 pages, giving an account of the Ojibways from official and other records.
From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Flandrau
Yet, in his eyes there was something that made the two rascally Ojibways shift uneasily.
From The Wilderness Trail by Frank Williams
Some are called Crees, others Ojibways or Salteux, and these are constantly at war with the Sioux to the south, chiefly found across the United States boundary.
From The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son" by William Henry Giles Kingston
After years of conflict for the rice lands, peace was made between the Ojibways of the Great Lakes and the Sioux, or Dakotahs, farther west.
From Two Indian Children of Long Ago by Frances Taylor
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