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The Ojibwe tribe or people are one of the group of Anishnabe peoples. The name for these same people in the US is Chippewa.

According to Seven Fires Prophecies, they originated on the Eastern Coast of the US among the Abenaki People living there. The Abenaki speak a variety of the Algonquian Language as do all Anishnabe peoples.

At the urging of the first prophecy, that a light skinned race would come and destroy the spirituality and very lives of those native peoples who remained along the eastern seaboard, the Anishnabe left en masse (in ten thousand canoes), moving west looking for the turtle shaped Island and the land where food grew on water (Wild rice, which they finally found in the Great Lakes). Along the way in this journey to the West, groups settled out at various places and became known as the Odawa, Potowotomy, Ojibway etc...

Ojibway/Ojibwe was one of the groups that traveled furthest to the West looking for the "promised land" of the prophecy...

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