"Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin- ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ" T-Shirt

The Algonquian language family of which Ojibwe is a member is itself a member of the Algic language family, other Algic languages being Wiyot and Yurok.. Ojibwe is sometimes described as a Central Algonquian language, along with Fox, Cree, Menominee, Miami-Illinois, Potawatomi, and Shawnee. Before contact with Europeans, many Ojibwe/Chippewa Indians followed a seasonal distribution of food and resources. Their cultural traditions included fashioning clothing and making fur coats for winter use. They depended primarily on fish year round, but followed game in the winter. Contact with French fur traders allowed them to expand their territory with the firearms they acquired, but the expansion of Europeans westward would gradually result in many changes in the Chippewa Indians' traditional way of life. This would come to include the last of most of the Chippewas' traditional homelands.