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Chippewa|ˈtʃɪpəwɔː, -wɑː| Also Chippeway and numerous other varr. [By-form of Ojibwa.] A member of an Algonquian Indian people found in the Great Lakes region. Also attrib. or as adj.
1754Washington Let. 24 Apr. in Writ. (1889) I. 51, 600 of the Chippoways and Ottoway Indians are marching down Scioto Creek. 1778J. Carver Trav. N. Amer. 416 The Chipéway tongue is not incumbered with any unnecessary tones or accents. 1788[see Mohican a.]. 1826J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans III. ii. 39 The wicked Chippewas cheated my squaw. 1831Boston Transcript 30 Dec. 1/1 The Chippewa tribe formerly inhabited the regions around Lake Superior. 1835C. F. Hoffman Winter in West I. 215 A well-made young half-blood Chippeway. 1880Harper's Mag. Dec. 43 The guttural ejaculations of the Chippewas who came to her door. 1890Frazer Golden Bough II. iv. 239 Among the Chippeways and other Indians of the Hudson Bay Territory. 1929Folklore XL. No. 4, (title) Tales of the Chippewa Indians. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 270 He must use English to converse with new friends, who may be Eskimo or Chippewa or the like. |