English words from Ojibwe
- MichiganA deke consisting of lifting the puck with the stick and throwing it under the top corner of the goal, while skating behind the net.
- MississippiUsed in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to equal approximately one second in length.
- MilwaukeeThe largest city in Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County.
- OttawaA member of the Ottawa people.
- ManitobaA province in western Canada. Capital and largest city: Winnipeg.
- WinnipegThe capital city of Manitoba, Canada.
- SaginawAn unincorporated community in Shelby County, Alabama, United States.
- OshkoshA small city, the county seat of Garden County, Nebraska, United States.
- ChippewaA member of the Ojibwe people.
- totemAny natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family; the representation of such an object or creature.
- KenoshaA city, the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
- WausauA city, the county seat of Marathon County, in north-central Wisconsin, United States.
- winnebagoAny of a Native American people of Wisconsin and Nebraska, now called Ho-Chunk.
- BemidjiA city, the county seat of Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States.
- OshawaA city in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
- EtobicokeA suburban district and former city in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- MenomineeA member of a nation of Native Americans indigenous to what is now Wisconsin.
- chipmunkAny of certain the small, striped rodents, all found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk, placed in the taxonomic subtribe Tamiina.
- mackinawA heavy woolen cloth.
- NipissingA member of the Nipissing First Nation, a people of Ojibwa and Algonquin descent whose ancestors lived in the area of Lake Nipissing in Ontario, Canada.
- wawaA snow goose.
- AntigoA city, the county seat of Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States.
- PotawatomiA member of a Native American people of the upper Mississippi River region.
- SpadinaA neighbourhood
- MahnomenA small city, the county seat of Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States.
- MattawaA river in central Ontario, Canada.
- firewaterHigh-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).
- wendigoA malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.
- BiwabikA city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
- AhmeekA village in Keweenaw County, Michigan.
- AnamooseA city and town in North Dakota.
- AbanicA member of the Sioux tribe of American Indian; Siouan.
- AnishinaabeAn Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquin, Potawatomi, or Odawa person.
- AnishinaabemowinThe macrolanguage spoken by the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquins, Odawa, and Potawatomi).
- bear walkerAn evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear.
- CowessessA First Nations mixed tribe of Plains Cree, Saulteaux and Métis.
- Gitche GumeeLake Superior.
- IshpatinaA ridgeline in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. (the highest point in Ontario)
- jossakeedA prophet or medicine man among certain Native American peoples.
- Kawartha LakesA chain of lakes Ontario, Canada, that form the upper watershed of the Trent River.
- KiwaniA member of Kiwanis International, an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.
- Lake MichiganOne of the Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. Hydrologically, a bay of Lake Michigan–Huron.
- machicoteAn underskirt worn by some Native American girls and women.
- Mackinac IslandAn island in Michigan, United States.
- mackinaw troutThe lake trout or North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush).
- Mahnomen CountyOne of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Mahnomen.
- manoominwild rice, usually northern wild rice (Zizania palustris)
- medicine manA Native American shamanistic healer.
- medicine womanA female Native American (or, any other indigenous) shamanistic healer.
- Mississippi RiverThe Mississippi (a major river passing through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, United States).
- muskimootA woven bag traditionally used by certain tribes native to northeastern North America.
- OjibwemowinSynonym of Ojibwe (language)
- OnigumAn unincorporated community in Cass County, Minnesota, United States.
- PikangikumA village in Pikangikum 14, Kenora district, Northwestern Ontario, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
- ShuniahA municipality bordering the city of Thunder Bay, north-western Ontario, Canada.
- strawberry moonThe full moon in June closest to the summer solstice.
- two-spiritInvolving two spirits; especially, pertaining to the doctrine of dualism espoused in the so-called Treatise on the Two Spirits in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- watapThe root of the spruce, and sometimes also of the pine, split lengthwise into strips and used in the construction of baskets and canoes.