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OJIBWAY (OJIBWA)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 54 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OJIBWAY (OJIBWA) , Or CHIPPEWAY (CHIPPEWA), the name given by the See also:English to a large tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians of Algonquian stock. They must not be confused with the See also:Chipewyan tribe of Athabascan stock settled around See also:Lake See also:Athabasca, See also:Canada. They formerly occupied a vast See also:tract of See also:country around Lakes See also:Huron and See also:Superior, and now are settled on reservations in the neighbourhood. The name is from a word meaning " to roast till puckered " or " See also:drawn up," in reference, it is suggested, to a See also:peculiar seam in their mocassins,. though other explanations have been proposed. They See also:call themselves Anishinabeg (" spontaneous men "), and the See also:French called them Saulteurs ("See also:People of the Falls"), from the first See also:group of them being met at Sault Ste See also:Marie. Tribal traditions declare they migrated from the St See also:Lawrence region together with the See also:Ottawa and Potawat'omi, with which tribes they formed a confederacy known as " The Three Fires." When first en-countered about 164o the Ojibway were inhabiting the See also:coast of Lake Superior, surrounded by the See also:Sioux and Foxes on the See also:west and See also:south. During the 18th See also:century they conquered these latter and occupied much of their territory. Throughout the Colonial See also:wars they were loyal to the French, but fought for the English in the See also:War of See also:Independence and the War of 1812, and thereafter permanently maintained See also:peace with the Whites. The tribe was divided into ten divisions. They lived chiefly by See also:hunting and fishing. They had many tribal myths, which were collected by See also:Henry R. Sehoolcraft in his Algic Researches (1839), upon which See also:Longfellow founded his " See also:Hiawatha." See INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; also W.

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Hoffmann, "Midewiwin of the Ojibwa," in 7th See also:Report of See also:Bureau of American See also:Ethnology (1891) ; W. W. See also:Warren, " See also:History of the Ojibways," vol. v., See also:Minnesota See also:Historical Society's Collections; G. Copway, History of the O'ibway Indians (See also:Boston,. 183o); P. See also:Jones, History of the Ojebway Indians (1861) ; A. E. See also:Jenks, " See also:Wild See also:Rice Gatherers," 19th Report of Bureau of American Ethnology (1900).

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