Ojibwe

Also O·jib·wa,
Also

[oh-jib-wey, -wuh]

noun

plural

Ojibwes ,

plural

Ojibwe .

1. a member of a large tribe of North American Indians found in Canada and the United States, principally in the region around Lakes Huron and Superior but extending as far west as Saskatchewan and North Dakota.

2. Also called Ojibwemowin. an Algonquian language used by the Ojibwe, Algonquin, and Ottawa peoples.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Ojibwe or their language.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ojibwe¹

An Americanism dating back to 1665–75; from Ojibwe očipwe·, a self-designation of uncertain meaning]

Example Sentences

For thousands of years, the site on which the city would be built was a trading crossroads for indigenous people such as the Potawatomi, the Illinois and the Ojibwe, who trod narrow ridges of glacial debris to cross the region’s wetlands.

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It was there, in an Ojibwe community in northern Wisconsin, that Pember’s mother, Bernice Rabideaux, was born a century ago.

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Bibeau listed manoomin, Ojibwe for wild rice, as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources, arguing that the rice had rights to clean water and habitat that would be jeopardized by the pipeline and the oil spill risks it would bring.

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This included reaching out to members of Ojibwe tribe, who protested the pipeline both for its environmental impact and as part of a larger history of anti-Native American genocide.

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"Enbridge leaders know there's no way for them to win the hearts and minds of all the Native people but they don't have to," Anton Treuer, professor of Ojibwe language at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, told Indian Country Today.

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