Ojibways
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pluralof Ojibway.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Ojibways called it mang, or the most handsome of birds.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Charles Alexander Eastman
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 William Henry Carman Folsom
Owing to heavy losses in their wars with the Ojibways and the French, they allied themselves with the Sauk tribe about 1780, the two tribes being now practically one.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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 Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Flandrau