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Chippewas of Saugeen Ojibway Territory

Though predominantly Ojibway, due to large influx of refugees from the south and west after the War of 1812, the descendents of the Chippewas of Saugeen Ojibway Territory also have ancestry traced to Odawa and Potawatomi peoples.

Des Lacs River

Ethnographic accounts indicate that the Assiniboine, Sioux, Mandan, Hidatsa, Plains Ojibwa, and Atsina peoples all made use of the region for hunting or trade route purposes, though few archaeological sites have been formally identified.

Glenlyon Campbell

Campbell married Harriet Burns, daughter of the Ojibwa Chief Keeseekoowenin, who had been baptized as Moses Burns by the Presbyterian missionary George Flett.

Hanging Cloud

Hanging Cloud (Ojibwa name Ah-shah-way-gee-she-go-qua (Aazhawigiizhigokwe in the contemporary spelling), meaning "Goes Across the Sky Woman") was an Ojibwa woman who was a full warrior (ogichidaakwe in Ojibwe) among her people, and claimed by the Wisconsin Historical Society as the only woman to ever become one.

Henry Steinhauer

Henry Bird Steinhauer (1804-1885), Canadian clergyman among the Cree and Ojibwa

Joseph Boyden

Three Day Road, a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I, is inspired by Ojibwa Francis Pegahmagabow, the legendary First World War sniper.

Lawrence Taliaferro

His role was to mediate between the American Fur Company traders, the Ojibwa and Dakota Indians in the area, and United States interests.

Mamongazeda

During the French and Indian War, Mamongazeda raised a party of Lake Superior Ojibwa to fight with the French, and were part of Montcalm's army at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Oji-Cree

The Oji-Cree, Anishinini (plural Anishininiwag) or, less correctly, Severn Ojibwa or Northern Ojibwa, are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a narrow band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west.

OJS

ISO 639 language designation for the Oji-Cree language, also known as the Severn Ojibwa language or Anishininiimowin (Anishinini language)

Petroform

Like the petroglyphs, many petroforms have complex and lengthy teachings that have been passed down orally by the Ojibway, other First Nations, and the Midewiwin.

Pierz

Francis Xavier Pierz, Roman Catholic missionary to the Ottawa and Ojibwa Indians

Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians

Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians (or simply the Pillagers; Makandwewininiwag in the Ojibwe language) are a historical band of Chippewa (Ojibwe) who settled at the headwaters of the Mississippi River in present-day Minnesota.

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

The Saulteaux (rapids in French) branch of the Ojibwa was named by French colonists after this region.

Shelby County, Ohio

The Algonquian-speaking Shawnee Native Americans had come into the area in the 18th century, displacing the Ojibwa-speaking Ottawa of the Anishinaabeg, a related language group who moved northwest.

Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig

Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig (University) is a proposed Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) university to be run in conjunction with a newly independent Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie and the Shingwauk Education Trust.

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is an Ojibwa or Ontario Saulteaux First Nation located in the Eastman Region of Manitoba and the Kenora District of Ontario.

Skownan First Nation

Skownan First Nation in a Saulteaux (Ojibway) First Nation located approximately 300 km north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on the south shore of Waterhen Lake, between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Winnipegosis.

The Game of Silence

Another prevalent theme is the way Louise Erdrich laces the Ojibwa language with English language.

Treaty of Fort Niagara

The 1781 Treaty of Fort Niagara, also known as Niagara Purchase, was signed by Colonel Guy Johnson for The Crown and representatives of the Ojibwa and Mississaugas Nations concluded on May 9, 1781.

The 1764 Treaty of Fort Niagara was signed by Sir William Johnson for The Crown and 24 Nations from the Six Nations, Seneca, Wyandot of Detroit, Menominee, Algonquin, Nipissing, Ojibwa, Mississaugas, and others who were part of the Seven Nations of Canada and the Western Lakes Confederacy.

Turtle Mountain

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a Native American tribe of Ojibwa and Métis peoples

Whitefish Lake

Whitefish Lake 6, Ontario, a reserve in Ontario, Canada inhabited by the Ojibwa Whitefish Lake First Nation.

William Joseph Snelling

For example, he helped negotiate the resolution of hostilities between the Dakota and the Chippewa and Winnebago tribes.

WOJB

Founded in 1982 with the intention of bridging the culture gap between the Native American population in the area and their non-Native neighbors in a time of heightened racial tension, the station is now a fixture of the northwestern Wisconsin airwaves, presenting a variety of programming, much of it presenting the culture of the local Ojibwa community and the wider Anishinaabe culture.

Woodlands style

The majority of the Woodland artists belong to the Anishinaabeg - notably the Ojibwe (also Ojibwa), Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the Oji-Cree and the Cree.


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