13 Facts About Odawa

Odawa, said to mean "traders", are an Indigenous American ethnic group who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, commonly known as the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

The only American tribe that is Odawa are the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, the rest are considered Ottawa.

The Odawa were described as having dealt "chiefly in cornmeal, sunflower oil, furs and skins, rugs and mats, tobacco, and medicinal roots and herbs.

Odawa dialect is considered one of several divergent dialects of the Ojibwe language group, noted for its frequent syncope.

In exchange the Odawa received "hatchets, knives, kettles, traps, needles, fish hooks, cloth and blankets, jewelry and decorative items, and later firearms and alcohol.

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Odawa had disputes and warfare with other tribes, particularly over the lucrative fur trade.

Many Odawa moved there from their traditional homeland of Manitoulin Island near the Bruce Peninsula, and Wyandot moved near the post.

Some Odawa had already settled across northern Michigan in the Lower Peninsula, and more bands established villages around and south of Detroit.

The Odawa chief Pontiac has historically been reported to have been born at the confluence of the Maumee and Auglaize rivers, where modern Defiance, Ohio, later developed.

Odawa hoped to build on their support to exclude the European-American colonists from his territory in northwest Ohio and southern Michigan.

In 1807, the Detroit Odawa joined three other tribes, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Wyandot people, in signing the Treaty of Detroit under pressure from the United States.

Bands of Odawa occupied areas known as Roche de Boeuf, and Wolf Rapids on the upper Maumee River.

In 1817, in the first treaty involving land cessions after the War of 1812, the Ohio Odawa ceded their lands, accepting reservations at Blanchard's Creek and the Little Auglaize River.