ojibwa in English

noun
1
a member of a North American Indian people native to the region around Lake Superior.
The Ojibwas had likewise used deception to their benefit in taking Michilimackinac.
2
the Algonquian language of the Ojibwa.
There are two sources of native borrowing: the Canadian Indian languages such as Cree, Dene, and Ojibwa , and Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit or Eskimo.
adjective
1
relating to the Ojibwa or their language.
Similarly, the Native Americans of the Chippewa / Ojibwa tribes thought that the Sun's flames were being extinguished, and so during an eclipse they would launch skywards burning arrows in order to replenish it.

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1. What does Chippewa mean? Ojibwa

2. Each Ojibwa tribe was divided into migratory bands.

3. Chippewa (Ojibway, Anishinaabe, Ojibwa) Language: The Ojibwe language --otherwise anglicized as Chippewa, Ojibwa or Ojibway and known to its own speakers as Anishinabe or Anishinaabemowin--is an Algonquian tongue spoken by 50,000 people in the northern United States and southern Canada.

4. Eastern Algonkins, the Ojibwa, on the contrary, does, having a larger number of correspondences with the Micmac than with any single tribe in its own or Western group

5. The names "Ojibwe" and "Chippewa" are essentially different spellings of the same word, "otchipwa," which means "to pucker," a likely reference to the distinctive puckered seam on an Ojibwa moccasin.

6. Ojibwa, also spelled Ojibwe or Ojibway, also called Chippewa, self-name Anishinaabe, Algonquian -speaking North American Indian tribe who lived in what are now Ontario and Manitoba, Can., and Minnesota and North Dakota, U.S., from Lake Huron westward onto the Plains

7. The Cougar (Puma concolor), also known as puma, mountain lion, panther, catamount, American lion and mishibijn (Ojibwa), is the largest wildcat in North America north of Mexico.It once roamed throughout Wisconsin, one of three wild cats native to the state, along with the bobcat and Canada lynx

8. Algonquian languages, also spelled Algonkian, North American Indian language family whose member languages are or were spoken in Canada, New England, the Atlantic coastal region southward to North Carolina, and the Great Lakes region and surrounding areas westward to the Rocky Mountains.Among the numerous Algonquian languages are Cree, Ojibwa, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Mi’kmaq (Micmac), …

9. Chippewa - a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior Ojibwa , Ojibway Algonquian , Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi

10. On a number of occasions these included brief profiles of men and women such as Leading Aircraftman K.N.B. Bannab, a photo-technician with the RCAF's 1 Wing at Marville, France; Sergeant John Martin from the Six Nations, of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, who, in April 1967, was serving with his battalion in Cyprus and who was the drum major for that unit's drum corps; Leading Aircraftwoman Geraldine Restoule, an Ojibwa from the Dokis Reserve, northern Ontario; and Sergeant Ernie Simpson (Okanagan, from Vinfield, British Columbia), RCEME (Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), and Private Dolphus L'Hirondelle (Cree from Lac Ste.