(ō-jĭbˈwāˌ, -wə) also O·jib·way(-wāˌ) or O·jib·we(-wĕ)
nounpl.OjibwaOjibwa or O·jib·was also Ojibway or O·jib·ways or Ojibwe or O·jib·wes
a. 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.
b. A member of this people.
The Algonquian language of the Ojibwa. Also called Chippewa.