Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma

The Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma is made up of descendants of the Ottawa who after migrating from Canada into Michigan agreed to live in the area around Fort Detroit, and along the Maumee River in Ohio. They are related to but distinct from the Ojibwe nation. The Michigan Ottawa lived near the northern shores of Lake Huron.

Like the Ojibwe, the Ottawa usually refer to themselves as Nishnaabe (Anishinaabe, plural: Nishnaabeg (Anishinaabeg)), meaning original people.

The Ottawa and Ojibwe were part of a long term alliance with the Potawatomi tribe, called the Council of Three Fires.

After the passage of President Jackson's Indian Removal Bill in 1830 there were Ottawa villages in Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan. They were moved to a reservation in Kansas before being removed to Indian Territory, Oklahoma. The Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma is one of two federally recognized Ottawa tribes.