OJIBWE

• The Ojibwe (also Ojibwa), or Chippewa are one of the largest groups of Native Americans .
• There are Ojibwe communities in both Canada and the United States.
• In Canada, they are the second-largest population among First Nations, surpassed only by the Cree.

OJIBWE CULTURE

• The Ojibwe live in groups (otherwise known as "bands").
• Most Ojibwe, except for the Great Plains bands, lived a sedentary lifestyle, engaging in fishing and hunting to supplement the women's cultivation of numerous varieties of maize and squash, and the harvesting of manoomin (wild rice).
• . Their typical dwelling was the wiigiwaam (wigwam), built either as a waginogaan (domed-lodge) or as a nasawa'ogaan (pointed-lodge), made of birch bark, juniper bark and willow saplings.
• They developed a form of pictorial writing, used in religious rites of the Midewiwin and recorded on birch bark scrolls and possibly on rock.
• The many complex pictures on the sacred scrolls communicate much historical, geometrical, and mathematical knowledge

OJIBWE HISTORY

• They traded widely across the continent for thousands of years as they migrated across continents, and knew of the canoe routes to move north, west to east, and then south in the Americas.
• According to their tradition, and from recordings in birch bark scrolls, many Ojibwe came from the eastern Asian areas to North America, which they called [Turtle Islands, Torres straits], from along the east Pacific Ocean.
• They traded widely across the continent for thousands of years as they migrated across continents, and knew of the canoe routes to move north, west to east, and then south in the Americas.

OJIBWE'S SUMMER

• The green leaves on the trees and lush forest come alive in the short summer, which is the warmest time of the year.
• Long ago, the original people peeled birch bark from the trees to make baskets, houses, and canoes in the summer.
• r. They also fished, picked berries, gardened, and gathered the food that they needed.
• Summer tasks included; working in the cornfield, gathering and drying of berries, crushing berrycakes, the main source of all winter nutrients -- especially vitamin C -- not supplied by meat and grain. There are raspberries, cranberries, blueberries, sarsaparilla vine (wabos odjibik mean rabbit root) and

OJIBWE'S SUMMER

• The green leaves on the trees and lush forest come alive in the short summer, which is the warmest time of the year.
• Long ago, the original people peeled birch bark from the trees to make baskets, houses, and canoes in the summer.
• r. They also fished, picked berries, gardened, and gathered the food that they needed.
• Summer tasks included; working in the cornfield, gathering and drying of berries, crushing berrycakes, the main source of all winter nutrients -- especially vitamin C -- not supplied by meat and grain. There are raspberries, cranberries, blueberries, sarsaparilla vine (wabos odjibik mean rabbit root) and

SPRING

SPRING