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O·jib·wa

[oh-jib-wey, -wuh] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural -was, (especially collectively

) -wa.

1.	a member of a large tribe of North American Indians found in Canada and the U.S., principally in the region around Lakes Huron and Superior but extending as far west as Saskatchewan and North Dakota.

2.	an Algonquian language used by the Ojibwa, Algonquin, and Ottawa Indians.

Also, Ojibway.

Also called Chippewa.

[Origin: 1690–1700, Americanism; < Ojibwa očipwe·, orig. the name of a single local group

]

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O·jib·wa (ō-jĭb'wā', -wə) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. Ojibwa or O·jib·was also Ojibway or O·jib·ways or Ojibwe or O·jib·wes

1. A Native American people originally located north of Lake Huron before moving westward in the 17th and 18th centuries into Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, western Ontario, and Manitoba, with later migrations onto the northern Great Plains in North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan.
2. A member of this people.
The Algonquian language of the Ojibwa. Also called Chippewa.

[Ojibwa ojibwe.]

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Ojibwa

Algonquian people of N.America, living along the shores of Lake Superior, 1700, from Ojibwa O'chepe'wag "plaited shoes," in ref. to their puckered moccasins, which were unlike those of neighboring tribes. The older form in Eng. is Chippewa, which is usually retained in U.S., but since c.1850 Canadian Eng. has taken up the more phonetically correct Ojibwa, and as a result the two forms of the word have begun to be used in ref. to slightly differing groups in the two countries.

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