Chippewa (redirected from Chippeway)

Chip·pe·wa  (chp-wô, -wä, -w, -w)

n. pl. Chippewa or Chip·pe·was

See Ojibwa.

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Chippewa [ˈtʃɪpɪˌwɑː], Chippeway [ˈtʃɪpɪˌweɪ]

n pl -was, -wa, -ways -way

(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) another name for Ojibwa

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Chippewa - a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior Ojibwa, Ojibway 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
	2.	Chippewa - the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa Ojibwa, Ojibway Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains