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Ojibwe. The Ojibwe (syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) [3] covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands. Ojibweg, being Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and ...
List of Ojibwa ethnonyms. This is a list of various names the Ojibwa have been recorded. They can be divided based on who coined the names. The first type are names created by the Ojibwa people to refer to themselves, known as endonyms or autonyms. The second type are names coined by non-Ojibwa people and are known as exonyms or xenonyms.
The name Anishinaabe is sometimes shortened to Nishnaabe, mostly by Odawa people. The cognate Neshnabé comes from the Potawatomi, a people long allied with the Odawa and Ojibwe in the Council of Three Fires. The Nipissing, Mississaugas, and Algonquin are identified as Anishinaabe but are not part of the Council of Three Fires.
Anishinaabe clan system. The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian -speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan (doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages.
Ojibwe women writers (2 P) This page was last edited on 13 February 2024, at 22:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
White Earth Band, Leech Lake Band, Grand Portage Band, Bois Forte Band, Fond du Lac Band. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (Ojibwe: Misi-zaaga'igani Anishinaabeg), also known as the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, is a federally recognized American Indian tribe in east-central Minnesota. The Band has 4,302 members as of 2012.
Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth-century Ojibwa woman and a significant figure in Ojibwa history. [1] She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath. [2] While some Ojibwa warrior women responded to necessity, Chief Earth Woman chose to become a warrior, entering ...
Attributed to the Ojibwe. [ 1 ] Anishinaabe traditional beliefs cover the traditional belief system of the Anishinaabeg peoples, consisting of the Algonquin / Nipissing, Ojibwa/Chippewa / Saulteaux / Mississaugas, Odawa, Potawatomi and Oji-Cree, located primarily in the Great Lakes region of North America.