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Ottawa|ˈɒtəwə|
[a. Canad. F. Outaouais, f. Ojibwa tribal name otāwā.]
A North American Indian people of the Algonquian family first encountered on the shores of Lake Huron; a member of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1687in Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1853) III. 442 A party of Sinnekes and Onnondages have plundered some French..and have also taken some Ottawa Indians prisoners. 1754[see Chippewa]. 1768J. Lees Jrnl. Aug. (1911) 39 On the Miami River, the greatest part of the nation of the Ottawas inhabit, they..are spread about it..chiefly on the North side of Lake Huron..and towards the North West. These, the Pous and Chipewas have almost the same language, and is [sic] called the Ottawa-Tongue. 1833A. Jackson in Messages & Papers of Presidents (1896) III. 38, I transmit..a treaty concluded between the commissioners on the part of the United States and the united nation of Chippewas, Ottawas, and Potawatamies, at Chicago. 1835[see Kickapoo]. 1865[see Algonquin, -kin n. and a.]. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 113 When men of the Bear clan in the Otawa tribe killed a bear, they made him a feast of his own flesh. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 171/1 There were 197 Ottawa under the Seneca School, Okla. 1962D. H. Hymes in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 129 The Ottawa believed the cries of infants to be meaningful. 1967D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 7) xviii. 282 The Iroquois turned their arms against the Ottawa and drove them from Georgian bay. Some fled west towards lake Superior; others took refuge with their Potawatomi kinsmen in the United States... Many of these refugees returned to..the north shore of lake Huron. 1977Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 16–C/1 ‘It's a hidden attack by commercial interests on native Americans,’ said Mrs. Waunetta Dominic, chairwoman of the Northern Michigan Ottawa Association in Petoskey. |