Anishinaabe

Anishinaabe (or Anishinaabeg, which is the plural form of the word) is the autonym often used by the Odawa, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, and other Algonquin indigenous peoples (usually called aboriginal peoples in Canada or "First Nations") and their subsidiary First Nations in Ontario. They all speak closely related Anishinaabemowin-Anishinaabe languages, of the Algonquian language family. Counting persons claiming Metis ancestry, some estimates claim "probably 600,000 to over 700,000 Anishinaabe people" alive today in Canada and the United States. The ways of life of all these Nations around the Great Lakes are well documented and share similarities.