The name Odawa, or Ottawa, is said to derive from the Anishnaabe term for 'trader.' On one European record, it was mistakenly associated with an Odawa phrase meaning 'people of the bulrush,' which applied to only one band along the Ottawa River. Other bands with federal status include the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma and several First Nations in Ontario, Canada. The others are the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. This is one of three federally recognized tribes of Odawa people in Michigan, who total more than 9,000 people, and the only one named Odawa. The largest communities within the reservation boundaries are Harbor Springs (formerly known as L'Arbre Croche in the French colonial era), where the tribal offices are located Petoskey, where the Tribe operates the Odawa Casino Resort and Charlevoix. A large percentage of the more than 4000 tribal members continue to reside within the tribe's traditional homelands on the northwestern shores of the state of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians ( LTBBOI, Ojibwe: Waganakising Odawa) is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Odawa.

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Little river casino resort to petoskey