Chippewa Indians

A large tribe, of Algonquian stock, formerly ranging along both shores of Lakes Huron and Superior, and westward as far as North Dakota. First mentioned in the Jesuit Relation of 1640, as living around Sault Ste. Marie. During the eighteenth century, they fought succe fully against the Sioux, Foxes, and Iroquois. They numbered in 1764 about 25,000; and at the present time count over 30,000, of whom about one-half are on reservations in Canada. Index : Hd Sioux offer to attack, 148. Bib. : Hodge, Handbook of American Indians ; Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes ; Grant, Sauteux Indians in Ma on, Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest .