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     Chippewa (popular adaptation of Ojibway, 'to roast till puckered up,' referring, to the puckered seam on their moccasins; from ojib 'to pucker up,' ub-way 'to roast'). One of the largest tribes North of Mexico, whose range was formerly along both shores of Lake Huron and Superior, extending across Minnesota Turtle Mountains, North Dakota. Although strong in numbers and occupying an extensive territory, the Chippewa were never prominent in history, owing to their remoteness from the frontier during the period of the colonial wars.  According tradition they are part of an Algonquian body, including the Ottawa and Potawatomi, which separated into divisions when it reached Mackinaw in its we ward movement, having come from so point north or northeast of Mackinaw. Warren (Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., v, 1885) asst that they were settled in a large village at La Pointe, Wis., about the time of the discovery of America, and Verwyst (Missionary Labors, 1886) says that about 1612 they suddenly abandoned this locality, many of them going back to the Sault, while others settled at, the west end of Lake Superior, where Father Allouez found there in 1665-67. There is nothing found to sustain the statement of Warren and Verwyst in regard to the early residence of the tribe at La Pointe. Read more...
 

History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan
Complete book on line, provides a small sampling of Ottawa and Chippewa words

Chippewa Indian Treaties

Treaty With The Wyandot Etc., January 21, 1785
Treaty With The Wyandot, Etc., January 9, 1789
Treaty With The Wyandot, Etc, August 3, 1795
Treaty With The Wyandot, Etc., July 4, 1805
Treaty With The Ottawa, Etc., November 17, 1807
Treaty With The Chippewa, Etc., November 25. 1808
Treaty With The Wyandot, Etc., September 8, 1815
Treaty With The Ottawa, Etc., August 24, 1816
Treaty With The Wyandot, Etc. September 29, 1817
Treaty With The Wyandot, Etc. September 17, 1818
Treaty with the Chippewa, September 24, 1819
Treaty with the Chippewa, June 16, 1820
Treaty with the Ottawa and Chippewa, July 6, 1820
Treaty with the Ottawa, August 29, 1821
Treaty with the Sioux, August 19, 1825
Treaty with the Chippewa, August 5, 1826
Supplementary Article
Treaty with the Chippewa, August 11, 1827
Treaty with the Winnebago, August 25, 1828
Treaty with the Chippewa, July 29, 1829
Treaty With the Chippewa, Etc., September, 26, 1833
Sums Payable
Treaty With The Chippewa, May 9, 1836
Treaty With The Chippewa, January 14, 1837
Sums Payable to Chiefs and others
Treaty With The Chippewa, July 29, 1837
Treaty With The Chippewa, December 20, 1837
Treaty With The Chippewa, January 23, 1838
Treaty With The Chippewa, February 7, 1839
Treaty with the Chippewa, October 4, 1842
Claims for Reimbursement
Treaty with the Potawatomi Nation, June 5 And 17, 1846
Treaty with the Chippewa of the Mississippi and Lake Superior, August 2. 1847
Treaty with the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians, August 21, 1847
Treaty With The Chippewa, September 30, 1854
Treaty With The Chippewa Of Sault Ste. Marie, 1855
Treaty with the Chippewa, February 22, 1855
Treaty With The Ottawa And Chippewa, July 31, 1855
Treaty With The Chippewa of Saginaw, Etc., August 2, 1855
Treaty With The Chippewa Etc., February 22, 1855
Treaty With The Chippewa Etc., July 16, 1859
Treaty With The Chippewa Of The Mississippi And The Pillager And Lake Winnibigoshish Bands, 1863
Treaty With The Chippewa—Red Lake And Pembina Bands, October 2, 1863
Treaty with the Chippewa-Red Lake and Pembina Bands, April 12, 1864
Treaty with the Chippewa of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, October 18, 1864
Treaty With The Chippewa, Mississippi, And Pillager And Lake Winnibigoshish Bands, May 7, 1864
Treaty With The Chippewa Of Saginaw, Swan Creek, And Black River, 1864
Treaty with the Chippewa-Bois Fort Band, April 7, 1866
Treaty With The Chippewa Of The Mississippi, 1867

Chippewa of Kansas
The original territory occupied by this tribe bordered both shores of Lake Huron and Lake Superior, and extended westward to the Turtle Mountains, in North Dakota. This land was beyond and beside the trails and courses of the first settlers, and as a consequence the Chippewa were not embroiled in so many of the border wars as were other tribes less fortunately situated.

Indian Tribes of North America, Swanton
Chippewa Indian History

Handbook of American Indians, Hodge
Chippewa History
Chippewa Gents
Chippewa Divisions
Chippewa Chiefs
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