Miranda Washinawatok, a Menominee girl and seventh grader at Sacred Heart Catholic Academy in Shawano, Wisconsin, has become an extremely famous person in the past few months (February to May 2012). Her story has appeared in newspapers and media reports around the world and a huge petition has been signed by people inside the USA and in many other countries.
See link below for her story:
The Chippewa have given us many famous people. Jeanette Corbiere-Lavel is a famous human rights activist who fought for rights to be restored to women who married non-Indian men. Leonard Peltier ,a human rights activist, still in prison for a crime that evidence shows he did not commit. Dennis Banks is the co founder of the American Indian movement. Winona LaDuke is a famous writer and activist.
Flatmouth (there are two)
Whitecloud
Bugonaygeshig (there are three)
Biauswah
Broken Tooth
Curly Head
Ahshahwaygeeshegoqua - Hanging Cloud Woman Ruth - Flatmouth sister first Leech Lake (Pillager band) woman chief Shingabawassin Sassaba
Mississippi
Sioux Chippewa Mandan Hidatsu
Michigan: From Chippewa words mici gama meaning "great water," after thelake of the same name.Mississippi: Chippewa; mici zibi, "great river" or "gathering-in of all the waters." Also: Algonquin word, "Messipi."Wisconsin: An Indian name, spelled Ouisconsin and Mesconsing by early chroniclers. Believed to mean "grassy place" in Chippewa. Congress made it Wisconsin.
Michigan
Chippewa boots are made and manufactured in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
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Chippewa
THE Ballabella, the Chippewa, the Dakota, Putlash, and the Ottawa
Mississippi
Sioux Chippewa Mandan Hidatsu
Chippewa,Ottawa and Pottawatomi
Michigan: From Chippewa words mici gama meaning "great water," after thelake of the same name.Mississippi: Chippewa; mici zibi, "great river" or "gathering-in of all the waters." Also: Algonquin word, "Messipi."Wisconsin: An Indian name, spelled Ouisconsin and Mesconsing by early chroniclers. Believed to mean "grassy place" in Chippewa. Congress made it Wisconsin.
Michigan
Gaston Andrew Artus has written: 'A book of short sermons in Ottawa-Otchipwe Indian' -- subject(s): Catholic Church, Chippewa Sermons, Chippewa language, Sermons, Sermons, Chippewa, Texts
The word you are looking for is Gitchigoomie, and is the Chippewa Indian name for Lake Superior. Most famous in literature because of its reference in the first line of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Haiawatha."
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe owns the Isabella Indian Reservation outside Mount Pleasant. It is home to the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort.
chippewa is another name for ojibwa and ojibwayChippewa were a wide spread Indian tribe. They lived in Montana most of the time but did travel.