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    Ojibwa (Ojibwe: Anishinaabe-oodena) is a town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 267 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated...
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    Ojibwa is an unincorporated community located in the town of Ojibwa, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States. Ojibwa is located on the Chippewa River at...
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    Ojibwe (redirect from Ojibwa Indian)
    Albert B., 1928, Plants Used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota, Wisconsin Archeologist 7(4):230–248, p. 244 Smith 1932, p. 420. Hoffman...
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    Lou Conter (category Military personnel from Wisconsin)
    attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Louis Anthony Conter was born in Ojibwa, Wisconsin, on September 13, 1921, to Nicholas Anthony Conter and Lottie Esther...
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    symbols instead of syllabics. Ojibwe (/oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ oh-JIB-way), also known as Ojibwa (/oʊˈdʒɪbwə/ oh-JIB-wə), Ojibway, Otchipwe, Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin...
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    groups living in Wisconsin when Europeans first settled included the Ojibwa, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, and Pottawatomie, who migrated to Wisconsin from the east...
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    Kechewaishke (category People from La Pointe, Wisconsin)
    September 7, 1855) was a major Ojibwa leader, born at La Pointe in Lake Superior's Apostle Islands, in what is now northern Wisconsin, USA. Recognized as the...
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    1850 and a post office established. The name Packwaukee comes from the Ojibwa meaning "shallow land" or the Potawatomi meaning "it is shallow." Pioneer...
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  • Algonquin, Nipissing, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, Mississaugas, and Odawa, native peoples of North America Ojibwa (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community...
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    Bay from the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin to the Garden Peninsula in Michigan. One early name is "Wassekiganeso," an Ojibwa name that translates to "his...
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    [citation needed] Warren, whose mother was French-Ojibwa, learned from maternal tribal elders that the Ojibwa originally lived near the mouth of the St. Lawrence...
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  • Chippewa (native name: Anishinaabemowin; also known as Southwestern Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Ojibway, or Ojibwemowin) is an Algonquian language spoken from upper...
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    Claire Counties Council (#621), changing its name to the Ojibwa Council (#621) in 1925. Ojibwa became the Chippewa Valley Council (#637) in 1928. Blue...
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    Statistical Area. Its name is from a modified Ojibwa term meaning "southern"; it was the southern boundary of the Ojibwa nation. A Menominee chief named Sawanoh...
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    for hundreds of years by the La Pointe Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, an Ojibwa band of the Lake Superior Chippewa. The first European settlers were French...
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    River—was known to the Ojibwa as Manoominikeshiinh-ziibi (Ricing-Rail River). Downstream of its confluence with the Namekagon, the Ojibwa renamed the river...
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    Superior Chippewa (called Waaswaaganing in Ojibwe) is a federally recognized Ojibwa Native American tribe. It had 3,415 enrolled members as of 2010. The Lac...
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  • Battle of the Brule (category Pre-statehood history of Wisconsin)
    was an American who had decided to live with the Ojibwas on Madeline Island. Although the Ojibwas living along Lake Superior's south shore were collectively...
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    the term "short ears" (courtes oreilles) in connection with those of the Ojibwa people. French explorers and French-Canadian trappers who roamed the northern...
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    Apostle Islands (category Islands of Ashland County, Wisconsin)
    Island as well as along the shoreline. On and around these islands, the Ojibwa people discovered and innovated agricultural advancements, including excavating...
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    S. state of Wisconsin that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison)...
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  • The history of Wisconsin encompasses the story not only of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of...
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    within the Town of Chetek. The original inhabitants of the area were the Ojibwa Indians, who referred to the area as zhedeg, meaning "pelicans". This was...
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  • Western Ojibwa (also known as Nakawēmowin (ᓇᐦᑲᐌᒧᐎᓐ), Saulteaux, and Plains Ojibwa) is a dialect of the Ojibwe language, a member of the Algonquian language...
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  • code: OJS (Severn Ojibwe) Severn Ojibwe, also called Oji-Cree or Northern Ojibwa, and Anihshininiimowin in the language itself, is spoken in northern Ontario...
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    ("New-town"), as opposed to Superior, Wisconsin, which is known as Gete-oodena ("Old-town"), in reference to the Ojibwa migration. The Bayfield Maritime Museum...
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    Hayward is a city in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, next to the Namekagon River. Its population was 2,533 at the 2020 census. It is the county...
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    the American continent. During the French and Indian War, a group of "Ojibwas and Pottawattamies from the far [Lake] Michigan" (i.e., the area from Milwaukee...
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    Mendota in Wisconsin. In middle of the 1700s, the Ojibwa established control of the Manitowish Waters area, including Trout Lake. By 1783, the Ojibwa had gained...
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  • College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, Wisconsin Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College, Hayward, Wisconsin Wind River Tribal College, Ethete, Wyoming...
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