What is the Ottawa tribes population?
There are about 15,000 citizens of Ottawa Indian bands in Michigan, Ontario, and Oklahoma today. There are also other people who are Ottawa descendants but are not tribal members. What language do the Ottawas speak? Most Ottawa people speak English, but some of them also speak their native Odawa language. Odawa is usually considered a dialect of the Ojibwa language. Odawa and Ojibwa speakers have different accents, just like American and Canadian English speakers. Here is a comparison of Odawa, Ojibway, and Algonquin vocabulary. If you’d like to learn a few easy Odawa words, aaniin (pronounced ah-neen) is a friendly greeting and miigwech (pronounced mee-gwetch) means “thank you.” You can listen to an Ojibway man talk his language here and read a picture glossary here. What was Ottawa culture like in the past? What is it like now? Here is the homepage of Little Traverse Bay Odawa tribal administrator Fred Harrington. On his site you can find information about the Ottawa people in the pa
