The Chippewa Indians are also known as Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe and the Chippeway. At one time, the Potawatomi also belonged to this tribe, but they have since split into a separate tribe.
The Chippewa’s name for themselves is Bāwa’tigōwininiwŭg, which means ‘people of the Sault.’
Home Territories: Michigan, northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota
Language: Algonquian Family
The Central Algonquian languages are commonly grouped together as a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family.
Though this grouping is often encountered in the literature, it is an areal grouping rather than a genetic one.
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This means the languages are grouped together because they were spoken near each other, not because they are any closer related to one another than to any other Algonquian language.
Within the Algonquian family, only Eastern Algonquian constitutes a valid genealogical group.
Within the Central Algonquian grouping languages that are closely related are Potawatomi and Chippewa otherwise known as the Ojibwe, which are generally grouped together as an Ojibwa-Potawatomi sub-branch.
David J. Costa spectulcated in his 2003-2004 web publications that within Central Algonquian there is a specific language sub-branch he refers to as Central Algonquian>>Ojibwe>>Anishinaabemowin or Ojibwemowin
Alliances: Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples
Enemies: Iroquois Confederacy and the Sioux
The Chippewa Indians were known for birch bark canoes, harvesting wild rice, copper points, and their use of guns from the British to defeat the Dakota Sioux.
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and its Ziibiwing Cultural Society will repatriate the ancestral human remains of dozens of Native Americans next week.
They will repatriate 41 Native American individuals from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; one Native American individual from the Toledo Zoological Society in Toledo, Ohio; and one Native American individual from the Dearborn Historical Museum in Dearborn.