To play the Ojibwa butterfly game, you need a wooden paddle or stick and a small wooden butterfly-shaped object. The object of the game is to toss the butterfly into the air using the paddle and catch it on the other side without it touching the ground. Players take turns trying to keep the butterfly in the air. The game can be played individually or in groups, with the goal being to keep the butterfly airborne for as long as possible.
The Achomawi tribes built homes that they occupied in the winter months. They were basically made of poles covered with brush and earth. In the summer months, they lived outside without shelter or made a simple windbreak or roof of brush that was open on all sides. To keep wind out, mats were hung.
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The Menominee people have a reservation in northeastern Wisconsin, although there are several communities that refused to live there and maintain towns outside the reservation.
I have anscestry showing that my GrandFather on my Mothers side was 50 % Cherokee, Also it it possible with further investigation that my GrandMother on the same side was 50% Monacan. It this enough to claim native American status. It is also possible that on my GrandFathers side that he had relatives that were on the trail of tears. I am direct decentent of Jonathan England who lived on the Cherokee lands, place called Burke, NC. I have pondered this question for many years?
The Ojibway (Anishinaabe) word for the willow tree is papakoosigun
That word is seen with several different spellings: miigwech, migwetch, megwitch and megwich are just a few. The final vowel is short, so it can not be ii.
All mean "thank you" [the literal meaning is "it is too much"], while apijigo megwich means "thank you very much".
A real Ojibwe would be much more likely to showappreciation rather than say it, so phrases like this were originally not much used.
The Iroquois (Haudenoshuanee) were 5-6 (depending on when) tribes that had been confederated in peace for 500 years when encountered by Europeans. Their bicameral legislature (two-house ruling body), one male and one female, would become a template for our own (Congress=Senate+House). Only men could be chieftains, and only women could elect chieftans. If a chief was doing something that concerned the women, they could get three warnings before being removed from power. First, an elder woman would come and try to talk sense with him. If this did not work, a woman of his generation would speak with him. If not, then a very young girl would ask him to change his ways, on behalf of the future. If the chief was still erratic and making bad choices, the women could remove him. The tribes were Matrilocal, meaning that men tended to be the ones to move upon marriage, and matrilineal: descent traced largely through the mother's line. "Social structure" is vague, was there something more direct? It was a matriarchy. The tribe was run by the female heads of families. The menfolk spent half the time off on long hunting trips. The older women ran the tribe.
Women wore dresses and men wore garment with breech cloth
they killed the rainyconrs and they learnd airbending in the spring
Ojibwa wore moccasins in the summer. Moccasins are a type of shoes they wore. They also wore animal hides in winter and breech cloth in summer. Not many of them wore feather headresses but some did. The Ojibwa wore clothes made from animal skin like woman wore animal skin dresses. Hope this helps.
The Ojibwe/Ojibwa/Chippewa/Anishinaabe people were there long before Canada existed as a country. Their prehistoric migration to the North American continent took place long before written records were kept so we can never know exactly when it took place; the only definite information about the Ojibwe people comes from much later European explorers.
The first encounter was with French explorers who met them in the area where lakes Superior and Huron meet; the French called them "Saulteurs" or "people of the rapids". They may have numbered around 35,000 people at that time.
The Ojibwe began to expand along the south shores of Lake Superior in the 17th century, settling in what is now part of the USA. They became one of the major tribes all around the Great Lakes. The US bands became known as Chippewa while the Canadian bands were known as Ojibwe or Ojibwa; they are effectively the same word.
So during the historic period they migrated from Canada, not to it.
Travel in the north woods was extremely difficult on foot since there were no roads and only a few trails, mainly used by war parties. By far the easiest way to get around was by canoe, using the many waterways and lakes in that area. Canoes were light enough to be carried (portaged) short distances from one waterway to another.
Ojibwe canoes were built of birch bark over a timber frame, with a very distinctive shaped prow and stern that was different to the shapes used by all other tribes. Natives always knelt in their canoes and could paddle, apparently without any effort, for many hundreds of miles. They would simply pull into the shore and make a temporary wigwam camp overnight, then start again early the next morning.
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Some of the tribes located in the far north include:
The Inuit
The Inuvialuit (descendants of the Thule of Russia)
The Yupik
The Innu (Northern Quebec)
The Dog Rib
The Inupiat (Alaska)
This is by no means an exhaustive list and hardly does the Northern Indian tribes justice as the tribes are more complex in their relations and origins than can be described here. You can find more tribes and information by visiting the link below.
hunting,singing
Native American children (Sioux particularly) played games that aided in their future as a scout or hunter. Feasts would be held for many reasons which would include eating, dancing, and singing. Hunting was not done for 'fun' or 'sport'; they hunted when they needed food.
they also threw around bison intestines
The tribes were conqered by the Spanish men and their family members were killed or sacrificed to the gods and other tribes hated them like the Tlaxcallans who helped cortes. Cortes abandoned them at last and conquered them as well.
Miranda Washinawatok, a Menominee girl and seventh grader at Sacred Heart Catholic Academy in Shawano, Wisconsin, has become an extremely famous person in the past few months (February to May 2012). Her story has appeared in newspapers and media reports around the world and a huge petition has been signed by people inside the USA and in many other countries.
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In the United States, the Cree were located in northern Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana. The southern limits of the Cree territory were the Missouri River and the Milk River in Montana.
In Canada, Cree territory was mainly north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
It is difficult to generalise about native American appearance, since there is such a wide range of features even among a single tribe. The Ojibwe/Ojibwa/Chippewa/Anishinaabe people historically were of medium height and slim build. Their skin colour was fairly dark and they had sharp features, some with narrow chins and others with strong, wide jaws.
Hair was worn very long and loose or braided, but often wrapped in a kind of turban. In the 18th century men often had pierced nasal septum and wore silver or bone ornaments in nose and ears. Buckskin shirts or long moosehide coats were frequently worn.
By the 19th century clothing for men and women was almost entirely made from trade cloth and blanket material, with only moccasins being made in the traditional way. Hudson Bay blankets were worn as winter robes or tailored into "blanket coats" with hoods.
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Before contact with European explorers the Ojibwe bands used bows and arrows as their main weapon, with clubs of various types as secondary weapons. Guns were supplied by white traders from an early date, leading to the bow being used far less than in earlier times.
Ojibwe bows were made of ash, hickory or birch and ranged from about 43 to 67 inches in length, often entirely stained a dull red. Arrows were of split hardwood or second-growth shoots, with early points of bone or wood, later metal points from traders. Fletchings were from golden eagles or turkeys (a very unusual arrow survives with 5 flicker feathers) and arrows were from 24 to 35 inches long, usually with very shallow nocks for the string.
War clubs varied in shape and size; some were huge ball-headed clubs carved from hardwood, often with bone (later metal) spikes added; the gunstock-style club might have a trade knife blade fitted.
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