Ojibway
Americannoun
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Origin of Ojibway
See Ojibwe ( def. )
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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
Under the treaty, Odawa and Ojibway nations who describe themselves collectively as Anishinaabek ceded lands that would comprise nearly 40% of Michigan’s eventual territory while retaining hunting and fishing rights.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
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
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 Stokes, Winston
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
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 Eastman, Charles Alexander
Yet, in his eyes there was something that made the two rascally Ojibways shift uneasily.
From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank
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