In this Council, the Ojibwe were addressed as the 'Older Brother,' the Odawa as the 'Middle Brother,' and the Potawatomi as the 'Younger Brother.' Consequently, whenever the three Anishinaabe nations are mentioned in this specific and consecutive order of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, it is an indicator implying Council of Three Fires as well.

Using the Midewiwin scrolls, Potawatomi elder, Shup-Shewana, dated the formation of the Council of Three Fires to 796 AD at Michilimackinac. The council is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Ottawa (or Odawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes.Originally one people, or a collection of closely related bands, the ethnic identities of Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi developed after the Anishinaabe reached Michilimackinac on their journey westward from the Atlantic coast. (in Anishinaabe: Niswi-mishkodewin), lso known as the People of the Three Fires the Three Fires Confederacy or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians.

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