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Ojibways

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O·jib·wa  (-jbw, -w) also O·jib·way (-w) or O·jib·we (-w)
n. pl. Ojibwa or O·jib·was also Ojibway or O·jib·ways or Ojibwe or O·jib·wes
1.
a. A Native American people originally located north of Lake Huron before moving westward in the 17th and 18th centuries into Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, western Ontario, and Manitoba, with later migrations onto the northern Great Plains in North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Ojibwa. Also called Chippewa.
[Ojibwa ojibwe.]
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Chief Copenace's Ojibways of Onegaming, like other First Nations and communities in northwestern Ontario, is facing the withdrawal of Greyhound bus services by Dec.
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A member of the Ojibways of Onegaming First Nation, Kelly was the first member of Treaty #3 to graduate from university, earning a bachelor of arts from Lakehead University, a bachelor of education from the University of Saskatchewan and a masters of education from the University of Manitoba.
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