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  2. Anishinaabe - Wikipedia

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    The Anishinaabe speak Anishinaabemowin, or Anishinaabe languages that belong to the Algonquian language family. At the time of first contact with Europeans they lived in the Northeast Woodlands and the Subarctic, and some have since spread to the Great Plains. The word Anishinaabe means "people from whence lowered".

  3. Algonquins of Ontario Settlement Area - Wikipedia

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    The area is historically unceded land, and is an area with more than 1.2 million people. [1] The Algonquins of Ontario are a group of ten Indigenous communities in eastern Ontario: the Antoine, the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, the Bonnechere, the Greater Golden Lake, the Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini (Bancroft), the Mattawa/North Bay ...

  4. Algonquin people - Wikipedia

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    The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. [1] Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (including Oji-Cree), Mississaugas, and Nipissing, with whom they form the larger ...

  5. Wabanaki Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner"; also: Wabanakia, "Dawnland" [1]) is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki of St. Francis, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.

  6. Robinson Treaties - Wikipedia

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    The Robinson Treaties are two treaties signed between the Ojibwa chiefs and the Crown in 1850 in the Province of Canada. The first treaty involved Ojibwa chiefs along the north shore of Lake Superior, and is known as the Robinson Superior Treaty. The second treaty, signed two days later, included Ojibwa chiefs from along the eastern and ...

  7. Anishinaabe clan system - Wikipedia

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    The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian -speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan (doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages.

  8. Nipissing First Nation - Wikipedia

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    www.nfn.ca. Nipissing First Nation (Ojibwe: Nipissing, Niipsing, Nbisiing), meaning "place of little waters", is a long-standing community of Nishnaabeg peoples, who traditionally speak Anishinaabemwin, [2] located along the shorelines of Lake Nipissing in northern Ontario. They are referred to by many names in European historical records ...

  9. Treaty 9 - Wikipedia

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    Treaty No. 9 (also known as The James Bay Treaty) is a numbered treaty first signed in 1905–1906 between Anishinaabe (Algonquin and Ojibwe) and Omushkegowuk Cree communities and the Canadian Crown, which includes both the government of Canada and the government of the province of Ontario. It is commonly known as the "James Bay Treaty," since ...