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Chippewa

DEFINITIONS OF: Chippewa

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n a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior

Synonyms:
Ojibwa, Ojibway
Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian
a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America

n the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa

Synonyms:
Ojibwa, Ojibway
Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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