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Ottawa Tribe
The Ottawa, or Odawa, are an Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes region, closely related to the Ojibwe and Potawatomi through the Council of Three Fires alliance. Their traditional territories encompassed the shores of Lakes Huron and Michigan and the waterways of present-day Michigan and Ontario. They were renowned as intertribal traders and middlemen in the Great Lakes fur trade. The Ottawa entered into treaties with the United States in the early 19th century regarding their Great Lakes territories. Today, several Ottawa tribal governments exist in Michigan and Oklahoma.
Portrait: McKenney & Hall, "Ka-na-pi-ma, an Ottawa Chief," 1842. Hand-colored lithograph.
2 treaties
2 mapped locations
