The Ottawa dialect is part of the Algonquian language family. In the 21st century, there are a total of approximately 15,000 Odawa living in Ontario, Canada, and in Michigan and Oklahoma (former Indian Territory, United States). They also occupied other areas of the Midwest south of the Great Lakes in what became the United States. After the 17th century, they also settled along the Ottawa River, and in what became the present-day states of Michigan and Wisconsin. They considered this their original homeland. Īfter migrating from the East Coast in ancient times, they settled on Manitoulin Island, near the northern shores of Lake Huron, and the Bruce Peninsula in the present-day province of Ontario, Canada.

They are one of the Anishinaabeg, related to but distinct from the Ojibwe and Potawatomi peoples. Their peoples are federally recognized as Native American tribes in the United States and have numerous recognized First Nations bands in Canada. Their territory long preceded the creation of the current border between the two countries in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa / oʊ ˈ d ɑː w ə/) are an Indigenous American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

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