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Anishinaabe or Anishinabe—or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek, which is the plural form of...

Anishinaabe or Anishinabe—or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek, which is the plural form of the word—is a self-description often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonkin peoples, who all speak closely related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe languages. The meaning of Anishnaabeg is "First-" or "Original-Peoples". Another possible definition refers to "the good humans", or good people, who are on the right road/path given to them by the Creator or Gitchi-manitou (Great Spirit). Not all Anishinaabemowin speakers, however, call themselves Anishinaabeg. The Ojibwa people who moved to what are now the prairie provinces of Canada, whom the French called the Saulteaux, refer to themselves as Nakawē(-k) and their form of the Anishinaabe language as Nakawēmowin. The term(s) used to describe a particular Anishinaabeg group differs from region to region. There are many variant spellings of the Anishinaabe name, depending on the transcription scheme and also on whether the name is singular or plural. Therefore, different spelling systems may indicate vowel length or spell certain consonants differently (Anishinabe, Anicinape); meanwhile, variants ending in -eg/ek (Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek)