Ojibwe (Chippewa)

The Chippewa Indians, also known as the Ojibway, lived mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Ontario. They speak a form of the Algonquian language and were closely related to the Ottawa and Potawatomi  Indians.

The Chippewas were allies of the French and French traders often married Chippewa women. Chippewa warriors fought with the French against the British in the French and Indian War. But political alliances changed with the times. During the American Revolution the Chippewas sided with the British against the Americans.

General Anthony Wayne defeated the Chippewas who fought alongside the Indians of the Ohio country at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. They gave up their claim to lands in Ohio with the signing of the Treaty of Greenville (1794), the Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789), the Treaty of Fort Industry (1805), and the Treaty of the Maumee Rapids (1817).