The Ottawa, also known as the Odawa, are an Algonquian -speaking tribe who originally lived on the East Coast and migrated into Michigan, Ohio, and southern Canada. Their name is from the Indian word “adawe,” meaning “traders,” because they …

The only tribe in the United States that is Odawa are the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians; the rest are considered Ottawa. Their neighbors applied the "Trader" name to the Odawa because in early traditional times, and also during the early European contact period, they were noted as intertribal traders and barterers. [6] .

Ottawa, Algonquian-speaking North American Indians whose original territory focused on the Ottawa River, the French River, and Georgian Bay, in present northern Michigan, U.S., and southeastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec, Canada. According to tradition, the Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi were

2018年9月10日 · Around the 1600s, The Ottawa Indian tribe lived along the Ottawa River in eastern Ontario and western Quebec. They were an Algonquian-speaking Indian and, therefore, related to the Lenape tribe and enemies of the Iroquois and Wyandot.

2023年8月9日 · Native to the East Coast of Northern America, the Ottawa tribe or Odawa people are an Algonquian-speaking tribe. The name Ottawa means (to trade) because they were noted as barterers and intertribal traders. The origin of this tribe could be traced down to …

A map depicting the journeys of the Ottawa from their ancestral homelands to Kansas and ultimately to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Map courtesy of Ottawa Tribal member Dr. David Dry, PhD.

Francis King was a Chippewa Indian who joined the Ottawas at their early settlement in Indian Territory in 1868, and he was formally adopted by the tribe. Francis served on the tribal council and also worked as superintendent of the Ottawa Mission School.

2019年10月1日 · Odawa (or Ottawa) are an Algonquian-speaking people (see Indigenous Languages in Canada) living north of the Huron-Wendat at the time of French penetration to the Upper Great Lakes. A tradition of the Odawa, shared by the Ojibwa and Potawatomi, states that these three groups were once one people.

Traditionally of the Eastern Woodlands cultural area (see under Natives, North American), the Ottawa have a well-developed creation myth that states that they were descended from three families: the Michabou, or Great Hare, the Namepich, or Carp, and the Bear's Paw.

According to tradition the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi tribes of the Algonquian family were formerly one people who came from some point N. of the Great lakes and separated at Mackinaw, Mich. The Ottawa were placed by the earliest writers and also by tradition, on Manitoulin id. and along the N. and S. shores of Georgian bay .