The Ojibway were anglicized as Chippewa or Ojibway. They spoke Anishinabe, an Algonquian language. This language is spoken by 50,000 people in the northern US and southern Canada. Ojibway is the healthiest of the native languages, with many children raised to speak it as a native language.
The people are widely distributed in northern central us and in southern Canada. Ojibwe means puckering such a the moccasin style. The Saulteneaux and Mississauga are subtribes of the Ojibway. Today there are 20,000 Ojibway Indians in their traditional territories. There are members of an alliance including the Potawatami tribe. This alliance was powerful and clashed with the Iroquois Confederacy and Sioux. They conquered both of the above. Many of their lands were appropriated by the Americans and Canadians. Today nearly all Ojibwe reservations are in their original lands.
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