 When the "Maandawe" were defeated in a major battle between the Ojibwe and the Meshkwahkihaki peoples, the surviving "Maandawe" were adopted as part of the Ojibwa nation, but instead as the "Waabizheshi-doodem" ("Marten clan").Among some Ojibwe people, (though not all) the "Waabizheshi" clan is also used to denote a form of adoption, i.e., a non-native father and Ojibwe mother.In other instances, for example, "odoodem" communities such as the "Amikwaa" were treated as fully interdependent Nations of the Anishinaabeg Confederacy, or given a designation to represent their primary function in the social order, such as with the "Manoominikeshiinyag" ("Ricing-rails") or the "Waawaashkeshi-ininiwag" ("Deer[-clan] Men").