Marc, The odawa, and ojibwe refer to themselves as Anishinaabe, or Anishinaabek (depends on tense) and the Potawatomi call them selves the Neshnabek which is a dialect diferentiation only since all three consider themselves originally all the same and Anishinaabe means original people or First people depending on who you ask. Seperating them is not their history.
They consider the time when they seperated into 3 groups as the time of their "fourth stop" of their westward migration, when the ones who went north were Odawa, those at the Straights were Ojibwe or chippewa, and the ones that went south were Potawatami but all were still called Anishinaabe or dialect deivations of that.
The Odawa elders I showed the bow to say it is a fine old odawa bow, so that is what I call it. In any case it is definately Eastern Woodland. This is not our first dissagreement on the particular bow. But in either case both sides are represented so the future readers can be aware of the possibilities.
I believe that you are aware that the French, British, and Americans all had different names for them, and did not diferentiate too carefully so I go by their history and tradition, as I have said before.
Pat: I did not say the Shoshoni were algonquin I said they were of the Algonquian language group. This is a common grouping distinction used in a lot of the writings I am aware of. The plains Ojibawe and Cree spoke a dialect called Oji-Cree, still Algonquian language but a different dialect. The siouian Language group was seperate as was the Athapaskin language groups such as Apache. But as I told Marc, both sides are now fairly represented so let the readers decide for themselves,eh?
rich
