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of tribal history, handing down from one generation to another the story of their origin such a system primarily was more or less enriched by the imaginative propensities of the narrator, and it seldom occurred that any thing was lost in the telling. Apart from this fact it seems likely, if not positively proven that the Algin or Ojibway indians are of eastern origin., and what evidence we have on the question of the Dakota tribes indicates they are of crossed out - like a similar origin However interesting this line of research is we must refrain from going too deeply into it as this such has to-day rather with the ethnology of the indian of today than their history, albeit enough must be narrated to indicate crossed out - the lines of research. so that the reader can intelligently follow the theme.

The name Ojibway has by the various writers been variously discussed and commen- ted upon. they all agree that "Ojib" means