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Ojibwa

(ō jib′wā′, -wä′, -wə)

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noun

pl. Ojibwas or Ojibwa a member of a North American Indian people living in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ontario
the Algonquian language of this people and certain neighboring groups

Origin: Ojibwa ojibwe, orig. name of an Ojibwa band near Sault Ste. Marie: said to be < a root meaning “puckered up,” in allusion to the style of moccasins

adjective

of the Ojibwas or their language or culture

Also Ojibway

See Ojibwa in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. Ojibwa Ojibwa 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.

Origin:

Origin: Ojibwa ojibwe

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