Geographic Distribution
Ojibwe communities are found in Canada from southwestern Quebec, through Ontario, southern Manitoba and parts of southern Saskatchewan, and in the United States from northern Michigan through northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, with a number of communities in northern North Dakota and northern Montana. Groups of speakers of the Ottawa dialect migrated to Kansas and Oklahoma during the historical period, with a small amount of linguistic documentation of the language in Oklahoma. The presence of Ojibwe in British Columbia has been noted.
Current census data indicate that all varieties of Ojibwe are spoken by approximately 56,531 people. This figure reflects census data from the 2000 United States census and the 2006 Canadian census. The Ojibwe language is reported as spoken by 8,791 total people in the United States of which 7,355 are Native Americans and by as many as 47,740 in Canada, making it one of the largest Algic languages by numbers of speakers.
| Language | Canada | United States | Total (by speakers) | Total ethnic population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin | 2,680 | 0 | 2,680 | 8,266 |
| Oji-Cree | 12,600 | 0 | 12,600 | 12,600 |
| Ojibwe | 24,896 | 8,355 | 33,251 | 219,711 |
| Ottawa | 7,564 | 436 | 8,000 | 60,000 |
| Total (by Country) | 47,740 | 8,791 | 56,531 | 300,577 |
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