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Ottawas

Variant of Ottawa

noun

  1. pl. Ottawas or Ottawa a member of a North American Indian people of Manitoulin Island and, at various times in the past, other scattered locations south of the upper Great Lakes
  2. the Algonquian language of this people, a dialect of Ojibwa, also spoken by some groups known as Ojibwa

adjective

of the Ottawas or their language or culture

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