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This is a list of various names the Ojibwa have been recorded. They can be divided based on who coined the names. The first type are names created by the Ojibwa people to refer to themselves, known as endonyms or autonyms. The second type are names coined by non-Ojibwa people and are known as exonyms or xenonyms.
Ojibwe women artists (17 P) S. Ojibwe sportswomen (3 P) W. Ojibwe women writers (21 P) Pages in category "Ojibwe women" The following 6 pages are in this category ...
Shania is a feminine given name, popularized by country and pop singer Shania Twain. [1] [2] It is pronounced with the stress on the i, as in Mariah. [3]Twain, born Eilleen Regina Edwards, [4] adopted the surname of her stepfather, Gerald "Jerry" Twain, an Ojibwe, [5] and later changed her given name to "Shania" in his honour.
Consequently, the Ojibwa would speak not only of one's grandfather (nimishoomis) and grandmother (nookomis), father (noos) and mother (ningashi), or son (ningozis) and daughter (nindaanis), but also would speak of elder brother (nisayenh), younger sibling (nishiimenh), cross-uncle (nizhishenh), parallel-aunt (ninooshenh), male sibling of same ...
Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth-century Ojibwa woman and a significant figure in Ojibwa history. [1] She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath. [2]
Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Ozhaawashkodewekwe: Woman of the Green Glade), also called Susan Johnston (c. 1775 – c. 1840), was an Ojibwe (also known as Ojibwa) woman and was an important figure in the Great Lakes fur trade before the War of 1812, as well as a political figure in Northern Michigan after the war.
Hanging Cloud (known in Ojibwe as Aazhawigiizhigokwe meaning "Goes Across the Sky Woman" or as Ashwiyaa meaning "Arms oneself") was an Ojibwe woman who was a full warrior (ogichidaakwe in Ojibwe) among her people, and claimed by the Wisconsin Historical Society as the only woman to ever become one.
By 1800, the Pillagers, including Ozaawindib, lived on Gaa-Miskwaawaakokaag near Leech Lake - terrain earlier inhabited by the Dakota people, who engaged in warfare with migrating Ojibwe. [4] John Tanner described Ozaawindib status as an aayaakwe in words: "This man was one of those who make themselves women, and are called women by the Indians ...