Ojibwe: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Ojibwa • Anishinaabe • Chippewa • Ojibway

Photos and Videos

Detail of Ojibwa birchbark scroll showing a moiety pattern ceremonial dance, c. 1875. In the Denver Art Museum, Colorado. Detail 46x41 cm.

Wigwam of the southwestern Ojibwa (Chippewa), Lac du Flambeau, Wis., 1933

Map of northern North America showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples in the subarctic region, with labeled areas for groups such as Deg Xinag, Gwich'in, Tanaina, Slave, Dogrib, Chipewyan, Cree, Ojibwa, Innu, and others. Solid and dashed lines indicate cultural and drainage divisions across Alaska, Canada, and parts of the northern United States.

Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples of the Northeast Woodlands region in North America, with tribal names such as Algonquin, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Iroquois, Shawnee, and Powhatan labeled across present-day northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Major lakes and rivers are marked, and a red boundary outlines the general region inhabited by these groups.

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Key People

Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan

American anthropologist

Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich

American author

Pages of a dictionary from England (English dictionary, British dictionary, United Kingdom, words, opened book.

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