[
US
/ˈtʃɪpəˌwɑ/
]
NOUN
- a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
- the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa
How To Use Chippewa In A Sentence
- A catlinite pipestone bowl was found along the shore of the Chippewa River in Peru Township. Undefined
- If, therefore, by the term "polysynthetic," which Mr. Duponceau, in 1819, introduced for the class of Indian languages, it be meant that its grammar consists of many syntheses, or plans of thought, it did not appear to me that the Chippewa was polysynthetic. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
- It feeds Red Lake, sacred to the Chippewa and once again thick with walleyes—fish with a glassy stare revered for their sweet, snowy flesh.
- Always a chameleon, she had acquired the distinctive Minne-sooa-tah Norwegian-Chippewa accent after six years and seldom called. VITALS
- Always a chameleon, she had acquired the distinctive Minne-sooa-tah Norwegian-Chippewa accent after six years and seldom called. VITALS
- He has spent life, it seems, knocking about trading posts, in the Indian country, being married, has metif children, and speaks the Chippewa tongue fluently -- I do not know how accurately. Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
- Always a chameleon, she had acquired the distinctive Minne-sooa-tah Norwegian-Chippewa accent after six years and seldom called. VITALS
- One friend, an unregenerate Chippewa heresiarch himself, commented, ‘They've sure got the right one this time.’
- She booms this out, echoing, using the old Chippewa language that I can barely understand or much less answer. THE BINGO PALACE
- There were about 250 men in the raiding party, Ottawa and Ojibway Chippewa fighters from around Michilimackinac, at the northwest end of Lake Huron, and a few Canadian militia. George Washington’s First War