Claim: Minnesota was inhabited by the native Ojibwe/Anishinaabe.
Evidence: Until European settlement , Minnesota was inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe/Anishinaabe.
Anishinaabe -LRB- or Anishinabe , plural : Anishinaabeg -RRB- is the autonym for a group of culturally related indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States that include the Odawa , Ojibwe , Potawatomi , Oji-Cree , Mississaugas , and Algonquin peoples.
The Ojibwe , Ojibwa , or Chippewa are an Anishinaabeg group of indigenous peoples in North America.