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

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

SPRING

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