Those-Who-Split-at-the-Stopping-Place

Those-Who-Split-at-the-Stopping-Place is a somewhat arbitrary ethnic term for the Algonquin, Nipissing and Mississauga peoples, members of the larger Anishinaabe ethnic grouping.

main article: origin of the anishinaabe
The Ojibwe and other People of the Three Fires traditionally maintain that they came from the east as a single Anishinaabe group; they made three stopping points on the way to their new homeland, and at the third, they split into six peoples. Three of these peoples, the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi, would later reunite politically as the Council of the Three Fires. The other three would develop into their own independent ethnic groups: the Algonquin, Nipissing and Mississauga.