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Chippeways  n. pl.  (singular Chippeway) (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; called also Objibways.






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"Chippeways" Quotes from Famous Books



... calumet, was used for settling disputes, strengthening alliances, and speaking to strangers—a sanctity attached to it. Wampum belts served in New England and the middle region as money and as symbols in the ratification of treaties.[12] The Chippeways had an institution called by a term signifying "to enter one another's lodges,"[13] whereby a truce was made between them and the Sioux at the winter hunting season. During these seasons of peace it was not uncommon for a member of one tribe to adopt a member of another as his brother, a tie ...
— The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin • Frederick Jackson Turner



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