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Ojibwe 

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Ojibwe (pronounced "oh-jib-way") is a tribe located in both the United States and Canada, mostly around the Great Lakes area. Also known as Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibewa, Saulteaux, and a few other wierd ways of spelling it. A lot of us prefer to be called Anishinabe (pronounced "a-nish-shin-nah-bay") which in the language means "first people". Ojibwe are the third largest tribe in North America (the first is Cherokee, second is Navajo.) "Ojibwe" is actually an Algonquin word that refers to our uniquely made moccasins. We are closely related to the Odawa and the Potawatomi (this created an alliance called the Council of Three Fires). The Ojibwe are known for their birch bark canoes, delicately made moccasins, wild rice, use of seashells, snowshoes, strong medicine, most of our reserves are on/near original land because we resisted being deported, and the fact that we were the only tribe to defeat both the Sioux (Dakota, Nakota, Lakota) and the Iroquois (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora). But now we can consider them all like friends!
-I love fire, but I'm not crazy.
-I can be very, very territorial.
-I refer to friends as "cousins" instead. And my real cousin is a "brother/sister".
-Me, I'm Ojibwe. To my fellow tribe members: Know your history, and be strong.
Ojibwe by *Gurl-w-Curls* November 9, 2008
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Ojibway

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The Ojibway are a First Nations or Aborigonal peoples who historically reside in parts of Northwestern Ontario and northern Minnesota. They are also known as the "Chippewa".
Distinctive features of an Ojibway include very broad shoulders & cheekbones, and in many respects they resemble the Inuit peoples further north.
"Eyy 'der chum, you're an Ojib' too? Damn.. we must be Cuz's or sumthin'. Got a schmoke 'der?"

(Ojib' is a slang term commonly used by present day Ojibway to address each other)
Ojibway by DJ Soup December 4, 2007

Ojibway

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"After John graduated from Law School he celebrated and became more than just a little Ojibway."
Ojibway by Linden Campbell March 25, 2010

Ojibwas 

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Ojibwas refers to the invisible, intangible influences that cause an inebriated person to act in an unusual and possibly embarrassing manner. Ojibwas can be likened to pixies or gremlins that haunt drunk people and it is due to these mystical creatures that people who have been drinking seem to act "drunk".
A: "Dude, I read Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and it sounds to me that those 2 guys and 2 girls were totally wasted"

B: "Well then I guess that would make Puck part of the Ojibwas"
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Ojibwa , Ojibwas , Ojibways , Ojibway (ōˈjibˌwā/oʊˈɪbwɑ ) 

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Definition of Ojibwa in English:
Ojibwa , Ojibwas , Ojibways , Ojibway (ōˈjibˌwā/oʊˈɪbwɑ )

NOUN plural noun Ojibwa, plural noun Ojibwas, plural noun Ojibways

(also Ojibway)
1A member of a North American people of the region around Lake Superior.
Also called Chippewa

2 The Algonquian language of the Ojibwa.

ADJECTIVE

(also Ojibway)
Relating to the Ojibwa or their language.

Origin
From Ojibwa ojibwe, said to mean ‘puckered’, with reference to their moccasins.

Pronunciation
Ojibwa
/ōˈjibˌwā/ /-wə/ /oʊˈɪbwɑ /
‘The two Ojibwas affectionately nicknamed him ‘Baptiste’ or ‘Bateese’ for reasons never clear to him.’
‘But long, long before the Voyageurs came the forests were home to the Sioux and the Ojibwa.’
‘The Agawa rock paintings are among the best preserved of about 400 groups of pictographs on the Canadian Shield and are attributed to Algonquins such as the Ojibwa.’
‘Such an equivocating philosophy might not pass muster with the Ojibwa.’
‘It was characteristic of Bill to remember my key point in a paper I gave there on my fieldwork among the Ojibwa.’
‘The French generally enjoyed good relations with nations such as the Ojibwa and the Potawatomi so long as trade goods were readily available and reasonably priced.’
‘These traits relate them to the southern Ojibwa or Chippewa.’
‘Among the Ojibwa, however, there is some evidence that children sometimes modeled animals in clay.’
‘The children also study the lives of the Ojibwa, the native people who not only thrived in this difficult land but preserved it for future generations.’
‘We found haplogroup X when we were studying the Ojibwa of the Great Lakes.’

Ojibwa , Ojibwas , Ojibways , Ojibway (ōˈjibˌwā/oʊˈɪbwɑ )
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