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Also Known As Ojibway • Chippewa • Anishinaabe • Ojibwa

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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
Distribution of American Subarctic cultures
Indigenous peoples of the American Northeast
The video thumbnail image shows a graphic of the Great Lakes with the text Anishinaabemowin.
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Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
American author

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