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Ojibway

[ oh-jib-wey ]

noun

, plural O·jib·ways, (especially collectively) O·jib·way.


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"In the days of my grandfather" is the Ojibway's preface to all his traditions and legends.

An Ojibway or Chippeway legend tells of a hunter who was greatly devoted to his wife.

The name was begot of the Ojibway's peculiar manner of lowering the voice at the end of a sentence.

Algónkin is the general name applied to all tribes that speak the Ojibway language or dialects of it.

Here Ka-be-bon-ikka—the Ojibway's god of storms—flaps his huge wings and makes the Thunder.

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