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Anishinabe

Anishinabe is the alternative form of Anishinaabe.

Meaning of Anishinaabe

Noun

Anishinaabe (plural Anishinaabe or Anishinaabes or Anishinaabeg or Anishinaabek)

  1. An Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquin, Potawatomi, or Odawa person.
    • In speaking about these non-Indian authors, there are a couple of more points I should make concerning my identity as an Anishinaabe scholar, both of which are related to the picture I paint of Anishinaabe culture.2016, Lawrence W. Gross, Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being, Routledge, →ISBN, page 4
    1. (specifically) An Ojibwe person.
      • In Deborah McGregor's chapter, she relates key personal and professional experiences regarding Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge (AEK), based upon her own life as an Anishinaabe, as well as on conversations and interactions ...2013, Andrejs Kulnieks, Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat, Young Young, Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies: A Curricula of Stories and Place, Springer Science & Business Media...
  2. (rare, uncommon) Synonym of Anishinaabemowin (“Anishinaabe language(s)”)

Forms of Anishinabe

pluralAnishinabe
pluralAnishinabes
pluralAnishinabeg
pluralAnishinabek

Questions about Anishinabe

What is Anishinabe the alternative form of?
Anishinabe is the alternative form of Anishinaabe.

Words near Anishinabe in the dictionary

  1. Anishinaabe
  2. Anishinaabeg
  3. Anishinaabek
  4. Anishinaabemowin
  5. Anishinaabes
  6. Anishinabe
  7. Anishinabeg
  8. Anishinabek
  9. Anishinabes
  10. Anisian
  11. anisic

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