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Chippewa (native name: Anishinaabemowin; [4] also known as Southwestern Ojibwa/Ojibwe/Ojibway/ Ojibwemowin) is an Algonquian language spoken from upper Michigan westward to North Dakota in the United States. [4]
The meaning of the name Ojibwe is not known; the most common explanations for the name's origin are: ojiibwabwe (/o/ + /jiibw/ + /abwe/), meaning "those who cook/roast until it puckers", referring to their fire-curing of moccasin seams to make them waterproof. [ 10 ]
Saginaw County – Ojibwe word "sagenong" meaning "place of the outlet". [31] [32] City of Saginaw; Saginaw River; Sanilac County – Chief Sanilac of the Wyandot people. [33] Shiawassee County – from the Chippewa word "shia-was-see" meaning "the river straight ahead." [34] Township of Shiawassee; Village of Shiawasseetown; Shiawassee River
The Odawa (also known as Ottawa or Outaouais) are a Native American and First Nations people. Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa (or Anishinaabemowin in Eastern Ojibwe syllabics) is the third most commonly spoken Native language in Canada (after Cree and Inuktitut), and the fourth most spoken in North America behind Navajo, Cree, and Inuktitut ...
Although it does contain a few loans from English (e.g. gaapii, 'coffee') and French (e.g. mooshwe, 'handkerchief' (from mouchoir), [104] ni-tii, 'tea' (from le thé, 'the tea'), in general, the Ojibwe language is notable for its relative lack of borrowing from other languages. Instead, speakers far prefer to create words for new concepts from ...
[3] The Chippewa participated in trading with other tribes, and later with the French, British and American traders here in turn. The Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians is the largest federally recognized tribe in Michigan, outnumbering the next largest tribe, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, by a scale of about 10 to one. It was recognized ...
Chippewa County – the Ojibwe (or Chippewa) people City of Chippewa Falls; Iowa County – the Iowa people; Kenosha County – Kenosha (ginoozhe), an Ojibwe word meaning "pike" (fish) City of Kenosha; Kewaunee County – for either a Potawatomi word meaning "river of the lost" or an Ojibwe word meaning "prairie hen", "wild duck" or "to go around"
Chippewa is an alternate term for the Ojibwe tribe of North America. Chippewa may also refer to: Languages. another name for the Ojibwe language. Chippewa language;