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ottawas
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Ottawas
Ottawas \Ot"ta*was\, n. pl.; sing. Ottawa. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.
Usage examples of "ottawas".
Every now and then a large body of Ottawas, Hurons, and other tribes who hunted the countries bordering on the great lakes, would come down in a squadron of light canoes, laden with beaver skins, and other spoils of their year's hunting.
This horse probably had been left by some party of Ottawas, hunters who wintered or hunted in this quarter last fall or winter.