Odaawaa

The Odaawaa, or Odawa, were a people of the Great Lakes closely related to the Ojibwe and Potawatomi. Their homeland included Manitoulin Island and the shores of Lake Huron, but warfare in the seventeenth century brought communities farther west. Odawa refugees were among those who settled at Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior. Known as traders, they carried furs and European goods between communities across the lakes, forming important links in the French trade into the interior.