[blam]

"Ojibwe = Chippewa, aka Anishinabe, that's what they call themselves."

"And they are't a "Northeast" tribe, they started out around the Great Lakes."

"Linguistically Algonkian, and there were Algonkians all up and down the East Coast, but not Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinabe."

Thanks. I learn something every day. LOL. I didn't know any of that.

[CobaltBlue]

When the French trappers first encountered the Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinabe, it was around Sault St. Marie. They got pushed west, eventually, to North Dakota/Manitoba, but their culture was based on the Great Lakes. They depended on wild rice, fish and water birds.

Not much of that on the Great Plains.