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. )
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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
Curve Lake, an Ojibway First Nation that was pivotal in bringing the civil suit to the federal court, is about 20 miles north of Peterborough, Ontario, a city of over 82,000 residents.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
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
“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
"After many years of warfare, Many years of strife and bloodshed, There is peace between the Ojibways And the tribes of the Dacotahs."
From The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes
SING, O song of Hiawatha, Of the happy days that followed, In the land of the Ojibways, In the pleasant land and peaceful!
From The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes
His early life was passed amongst the Ojibways in the employ of various fur companies.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
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
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