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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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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
The video thumbnail image shows a graphic of the Great Lakes with the text Anishinaabemowin.
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Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
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