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Ojibwa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Ojibwa ETHNONYMS: Anishinabe, Bungee, Bungi, Chippewa, Mississauga, Northern Ojibwa, Plains Ojibwa, Saulteaux, southwestern Chippewa, Southeastern Ojibwa Orientation Identification. The Ojibwa are a large American Indian group located...
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Louise Erdrich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...childhood, the rich oral tradition of Ojibwa storytelling was a part of Erdrich's...Reservation, he worshiped the traditional Ojibwa religion while at the same time was a...writing poems and stories integrating her Ojibwa heritage and in 1975 she was awarded the...
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Marie and began his ethnological researches. Having married the half-Ojibwa daughter of a fur trader, Schoolcraft learned the Ojibwa language and a great deal of Ojibwa lore. His area of administration as Indian agent was later considerably...
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Cree, Western Woods
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Hudson Bay, known to the French, from Ojibwa, as "Kiristino," later shortened to...including Blackfeet, Piegan, Blood, Ojibwa, and Gros Ventre. Later, Siouan-speaking...late eighteenth century led many Cree, Ojibwa, and Iroquois to move west. Intermarriage...
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Banks, Dennis J.
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...Native Americans. Like many Anishinabe Ojibwa, or Chippewa, children, he was sent...culture by forbidding the speaking of the Ojibwa language, Lakota. Thus, like many of...fellow convict Clyde Bellecourt, also an Ojibwa. The two men and others founded AIM in...
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Baraga, Frederic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Christianity, but appreciated the traditions and customs of the Ojibwa and their cousins, the Ottawa Indians, and knew that much...Ottawa were traders, and related to the larger ethnic group of Ojibwa, who were sometimes called Chippewa. Ottawa communities dotted...
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Metis of Western Canada
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Eastern Indians" including some Iroquois peoples and vari-ous Ojibwa peoples, including the Nipissings, Ottawas, and Saulteaux...Matrilineally, the Metis look to indigenous Indian bands; largely Ojibwa in the region of the upper Great Lakes, largely Cree on the...
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Minnesota
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...were witness to numerous confrontations between the Dakota and Ojibwa Indians who inhabited the territory. In the mid-1600s French...to prosper on the upper Mississippi until treaties with the Ojibwa and Dakota Indians transferred large parcels of their land to...
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wild rice
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Native Americans of the Algonquian linguistic family, especially the Ojibwa and Menominee, and certain Sioux warred for centuries for control of the wild-rice fields. The Ojibwa called the grain manomin [good berry], and the Menominee are believed...
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Cree
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...language of the Woodland Cree greatly resembles that of the Ojibwa . A warlike tribe, the Cree were nevertheless friendly toward...States, some of them sharing a reservation in Montana with the Ojibwa. Bibliography: See L. Mason, The Swampy Cree (1967...
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