The Indigenous people of Canada and the United States. The Ojibwe, also known as the Chippewa, are of the Anishnabe people. Niska’s mother is Ojibwe, and Xavier and Elijah meet a fellow Anishnabe, an Ojibwe Indian, in France during World War I.
Ojibwe Quotes in Three Day Road
The Three Day Road quotes below are all either spoken by Ojibwe or refer to Ojibwe. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Takoshininaaniwan: Arrival
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Smithy shakes his head and looks away. He is small and skinny. He's going bald. He looks like a Hudson's Bay Company man I know back in Moose Factory who teaches Sunday school to the children who live on the reserve and not in the bush, the homeguard children. "That ain't true atall," Smithy mumbles. "There's another Indian feller goes by the name Peggy. Ojibwe, I think." He looks over at me. ''He's got close to a hundred kills but no officer wants to give him credit since he likes working alone." Smithy suddenly stops talking and looks embarrassed that he's said so much. "Peggy's salt of the earth," he adds as an afterthought. "Every Canadian enlisted man knows he ain't no liar."
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Ojibwe Term Timeline in Three Day Road
The timeline below shows where the term Ojibwe appears in Three Day Road. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Takoshininaaniwan: Arrival
...ain’t true at all,” Smithy says. “There’s another Indian feller goes by the name Peggy. Ojibwe, I think.” Peggy has nearly one hundred hits, Smithy says, but the officers won’t “give...
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Tapakwewin: Snaring
...Lisettes,” Elijah says. In the pub, Elijah and Xavier see another Indian. He’s Anishnabe, an Ojibwe, from the looks of it.
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