Ojibwe

The Ojibwe were an Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes, allied with the Odawa and Potawatomi in the Council of Three Fires.

French Jesuits recorded them near Lake Superior's outlet in 1640. Trade with France brought firearms as Ojibwe communities expanded west and south around the lakes. They fought alongside France in the Seven Years' War; in 1807 the Ojibwe and other nations ceded land in southeastern Michigan and northern Ohio to the United States by the Treaty of Detroit. Ojibwe warriors supported Britain in the War of 1812.