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A 10 page overview of the Ojibway, a Native American people also known as the Chippewa that inhabit both parts of the US and Canada. An annotated bibliography lists 8 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
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Ojibway seems to be prefered by the Canadian branches of these people, the US branch as a rule tend to prefer the name Chippewa. Accordingly, that is what they
will be primarily referred to in this paper. Just as they have been known by many names, the Chippewa have been (and currently are) affected by a number of socioeconomic
factors. The fact that the Chippewa are spread out between two countries, the US and Canada, is one of these factors. Chippewa health and welfare is influenced by
national policies as well as by regional perspectives and situations. By far the most predominant of the factors affecting the Chippewa, however, are related to their relationship with the
US government and the influence that relationship has had on such things as land ownership, distribution patterns, and even personal health. In many cases the impacts experienced by the
Chippewa are the same as those being experienced by other Native American groups. In other cases, however, these impacts are specific to the Chippewa alone. According to the US
Census Bureau (2000) 105,907 Chippewa currently live in the US. These individuals sometimes reside alongside the general population of non-Natives but they sometimes reside on reservations, of which there
are several across the country. One of these reservations is that of the White Earth Band of Chippewa. Giese (1997) provides a view of the White Earth Band of
the Chippewa (Ojibway) as they existed in 1997. The White Earth Band was comprised of 20,225 members and occupied some 837,120 acres (Giese, 1997). Of that total, 71,357.71
acres were actually in tribal ownership and another 2,500 acres were formally affiliated with the tribe (Giese, 1997). An addition 45,720 acres were held in federal trust
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