The Ojibwe are originally from the east and speak a form of Algonquin. Origin stories begin near the Atlantic Ocean, where a mystic seashell showed itself over the ocean. One day it sank and never rose again. The shell appeared again on the Saint Lawrence River, and the tribe followed it there and encamped for a while. It disappeared again and rose over Lake Ontario and, eventually, Point Island on Lake Superior—which is the geographic center of the Ojibwe nation today.
