[Fedora]

That's a good issue you raise, but what I wonder with respect to that is when the Ojibwe (Chippewa) first became entrenched where they were when the French arrived? Our records of them come from relatively late compared to the Vikings and don't tell us much about their prehistory, to my best recollection (was reading about this a couple months ago, though I may need to refresh my memory on specifics--just returned the book to the library today actually, per Murphy's Law--doh!). There was a lot of displacement going on during that period due to migrations caused by wars with the Iroquois.

[muawiyah]

Most of the Chippewa can pass for Japanese, and vice versa. Their origins are far to the West, across the wide Pacific to Northern Japan and NE Siberia! (They, themselves, JAs and Chippewa, regularly make the same mistake.)