Chippewa

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Chippewa MN 56265
United States
44° 58' 10.3584" N, 95° 42' 36.0576" W
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Chippewa is in Chippewa County This county, established February 20, 1862, and organized March 5, 1868, is named for the Chippewa River, which here joins the Minnesota. The river was called Manya Wakan ("of remarkable or wonderful bluffs") by the Dakota. Its present name was also given by the Dakota, because the country of their enemies, the Ojibwe or Chippewa Indians, extended southwestward to the headwaters of this stream, at Chippewa Lake in Douglas County. From: Upham, Warren. Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, First edition 1920. Third Edition 2001. Print.