The Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa people

Usage examples of chippewa.

She was a long-legged Chippewa woman, aged hard in every way except how she moved.

He boasted that no steel or concrete shit barn could hold a Chippewa, and he had eel like properties in spite of his enormous size.

He felt he had paid for his crime, which was done in a drunk heat and to settle the question with a cowboy of whether a Chippewa was also a nigger.

Old Man Pillager told me, when we were on the closest terms, how drowning was the worst death for a Chippewa to experience.

The famous Chippewa who had songs wrote for him, whose face was on protest buttons, whose fate was argued over in courts of law, who sent press releases to the world, sat down at the dirtiest kitchen table in Minnesota with his son and his cellmate, and picked up a deck of cards.

Jared, for all his smarts and all his talents, had been the Chippewa who was not a Chippewa.

He could have a little taste of life on the fez, maybe use it in a school essay in the fall, and tell his friends all about how his uncle, the chairman of the Pine Lake Band of Chippewa, had taken him fishing.

Indians, then look in the mirror and see himself, living and breathing inside real Chippewa skin.

Coincidentally, the Chippewa owed the white traders almost exactly the amount the government was paying for the land.

As Arlen demonstrated the basket-making process, he described how the baskets would be used during the early autumn wild-rice harvest, when the Chippewa would exercise another of their treaty rights.

Until the Pine Lake Band of Chippewa had pointed out that the state had Defender 139 no jurisdiction over their treaty rights.

He touched his finger to his lips, then with one hand stroked her brow, gently coaxing her eyelids closed as he sang to her softly in Chippewa, words he remembered from his boyhood when nook orals his grandmother, had sung them to him.

The fate of the settlement rested with the state legislature now, for the Pine Lake Chippewa had made their offer.

Either way, Gideon realized that the fate of the Pine Lake Defender 243 Chippewa lay exactly where it always had--in the hands of the Chippewa people themselves and with Chimaunido.

Author Note Pine Lake Reservation and the Pine Lake Band of Chippewa are purely fictitious.