"The Ojibways, with their kindred, the Pottawattamies, and their friends the Ottawas,--the latter of whom were fugitives from the eastward, whence they had fled from the wrath of the Iroquois,--were banded into a sort of confederacy. They were closely allied in blood, language, manners and character. The Ojibways, by far the most numerous of the three, occupied the basin of Lake Superior, and extensive adjacent regions. In their boundaries, the career of Iroquois conquest found at length a check. The fugitive Wyandots sought refuge in the Ojibway hunting grounds; and tradition relates that, at the outlet of Lake Superior, an Iroquois war-party once encountered a disastrous repulse. In their mode of life, they were far more rude than the Iroquois, or even the southern Algonquin tribes." _F. Parkman, Conspiracy of Pontiac, chapter 1._ {97} "The name of the tribe appears to be recent. It is not met with in the older writers. The French, who were the earliest to meet them, in their tribal seat at the falls or Sault de Ste Marie, named them Saulteur, from this circumstance. M'Kenzie uses the term 'Jibway,' as the equivalent of this term, in his voyages. They are referred to, with little difference in the orthography, in General Washington's report, in 1754, of his trip to Le Bœuf, on Lake Erie; but are first recognized, among our treaty-tribes, in the general treaty of Greenville, of 1794, in which, with the Ottawas they ceded the island of Michilimackinac, and certain dependencies, conceded by them at former periods to the French. ... The Chippewas are conceded, by writers on American philology ... to speak one of the purest forms of the Algonquin." _H. R. Schoolcraft, Information respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes, part 5, p. 142._ ALSO IN _G. Copway, The Ojibway Nation._ _J. G. Kohl, Kitchi-gami_. See, also, PONTIAC'S WAR: and above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Omahas. See below: SIOUAN FAMILY, and PAWNEE (CADDOAN) FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Oneidas. See above: IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY. Onondagas. See above: IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Orejones. See below: PAMPAS TRIBES. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Osages. See below: SIOUAN FAMILY, and PAWNEE (CADDOAN) FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Otoes, or Ottoes. See below: SIOUAN FAMILY, and PAWNEE (CADDOAN) FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Otomis.