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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
Eastern Woodlands Indians
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Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
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