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Tribe also known as the Chippewa
Answer for the clue "Tribe also known as the Chippewa ", 6 letters:
ojibwa
Alternative clues for the word ojibwa
- Native people of Canada
- Native of the Lake Superior region
- Upper Great Lakes Indian
- Simpson is back initially with a Native American
- The Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa people
- Northern American native people
- A member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
- Algonquian Indian
- Longfellow's Hiawatha, e.g
Word definitions for ojibwa in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Algonquian people of North America living along the shores of Lake Superior, 1700, from Ojibwa O'chepe'wag "plaited shoes," in reference to their puckered moccasins, which were unlike those of neighboring tribes. The older form in English is Chippewa , ...
Usage examples of ojibwa.
MERCHANT PRINCES their retinues came from every corner of the HBCs former empire-Swampy Cree from Hudson and James bays, Saulteaux from Lake Winnipeg, Ojibwas from the Nipigon country, Sioux from the Portage Plains, and mighty warriors from the Peace and Athabasca valleys.
Their similarity to those current among the Ojibwas, and other Eastern Algonquin tribes, is sufficiently obvious and altogether to be expected, nor is it at all remarkable that we should find, among the Blackfeet, tales identical with those told by tribes of different stock far to the south.