chippewa means (first man)

No! The reservation is simply land that has been reserved for a specific tribe to use and govern as they wish. Most Native Americans actually live outside of the reservations. In Minnesota, the state my tribe (Ojibwe) is from, the largest population of Native Americans live in Minneapolis, which is also our biggest city.

modern day Ojibwe live in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and southern Canada. we use to live on the upper east coast of us and southern Canada

The Chippewas, Ojibwas, Ojibwes or Anishinaabe people were a loose collection of many different bands speaking similar languages. Originally confined to the area called Sault St Marie by French explorers (where Lake Superior and Lake Huron join), they probably numbered around 35,000 people split into small bands of around 500 each. These bands split into even smaller groups during the winter, when food sources became very scarce.

During the 1600s the Ojibwas began to expand southwards, particularly along the south shore of Lake Superior; by 1692 they had also occupied the Chequamegon Bay area and later they established villages at Lac du Flambeau, Lac Court Oreilles and Fond du Lac in Wisconsin and Minnesota, reaching Mille Lacs in Minnesota by the late 1700s.

Another Ojibwa group moved into the Ontario peninsula where they were known as Mississaugas.

So by 1800 the Ojibwas (or Chippewas) extended across the entire area north of the Great Lakes from the Ottawa river to Lake of the Woods; south and east of Lake Huron (as Mississaugas); south and west of Lake Superior and into Minnesota.

The really huge area occupied by this people and their many unconnected bands make it difficult to consider them a "tribe"; they should rather be considered a loose collection of tribal groups who gradually developed different dialects of the same language - at no time would the entire Ojibwa people ever come together as a unit.

Pretty interesting if you ask me, they hunted, fished, encountered bears, all sorts of stuff.

There isn't one. As Russell Means explained it, "love" is a white man's word for when they can't explain what they feel or mean. Many Native American cultures do not have an equivalent work for love. It is expressed through actions and other words.

The Ojibwe tribe or people are one of the group of Anishnabe peoples. The name for these same people in the US is Chippewa.

According to Seven Fires Prophecies, they originated on the Eastern Coast of the US among the Abenaki People living there. The Abenaki speak a variety of the Algonquian Language as do all Anishnabe peoples.

At the urging of the first prophecy, that a light skinned race would come and destroy the spirituality and very lives of those native peoples who remained along the eastern seaboard, the Anishnabe left en masse (in ten thousand canoes), moving west looking for the turtle shaped Island and the land where food grew on water (Wild rice, which they finally found in the Great Lakes). Along the way in this journey to the West, groups settled out at various places and became known as the Odawa, Potowotomy, Ojibway etc...

Ojibway/Ojibwe was one of the groups that traveled furthest to the West looking for the "promised land" of the prophecy...

Yes they do

they use some kind of tools and planted whatever kind of food they grew :)

The Ojibwa women would take care of the children and cook and help the men get the wild rice by using a stick to knock it in the canoe and make wigwams.

In 1797

By getting permission to lead there people on the trails.

The Chipewyan, Lakehead, Athabaskan and Yellowknives lived from Hudson's Bay and the Churchill River area to Great Slave Lake; they dressed very much as Paleao-Indians dressed when they first migrated into the Americas many thousands of years ago.

Men wore finely-tanned caribou hide clothing (with the hair left on for winter use, but scraped off for summer clothes). A breechclout was often the only thing worn during the warm months; skin trousers were sometimes attached to moccasins. Shirts reached to the thigh and were belted - the lower edge front and back came to a point and the entire shirt was fringed and sometimes painted yellow.

Women wore a shirt like those of the men, but reaching the ankles or the calf, belted and not pointed but straight along the bottom edge. Often these were made large enough for a baby to be carried inside, on the mother's back. Leggings were tied below the knees.

Early moccasins were often sewn to the leggings; boots of caribou skins were also made with soles of tough moose hide.

Parkas of caribou hide, trimmed with fur, were worn by men and women and children wore entire suits of rabbit fur for warmth.

Both sexes wore their hair very long and loose, but men sometimes cut theirs in different ways. Headbands of fur or skin were popular, or fur caps; mittens of moose or caribou skin kept the hands warm.

The Chipewyan people were slow to adopt European style clothes such as neck scarves, headscarves, blouses, shoes and dresses.

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The Ojibwe, Ojibwa or Chippewa people made very many items using the materials from their own environment.

Being a northerly tribe they had very harsh winters to cope with and made distinctive snowshoes; they made beadwork and quillwork to decorate clothing and other items; they made smoking pipes of stone, some with lead inlay; drums were made of rawhide stretched and laced over wooden frames; they made mats of cattail stems for flooring or wigwam covers; wooden hawk and owl effigies were placed on graves; wood was also used for bows and arrows, cradleboards and canoes. Bark containers could be sealed with pitch or balsam gum to create buckets capable of carrying water without leaking. There are many more examples.

Not all Woodland Indians built longhouses. Some built wigwams.

A wigwam was a round building with a round top. It was made from tree logs, covered again with bark. Some were additionally covered with mats or hide. Some were quite large - about 6 feet long. There were huge rush mats in front of the fire, and brightly dyed mats on the walls. The women made the wigwam as colorful as they could. Extended families - kids, parents, and grandparents - all lived together in one wigwam.

A wigwam is not a tipi. A tipi is totally portable. It is made with long poles covered with hides. Some wigwams were fixed shelters. Some were a mix of permanent and portable.

The Ojibwa, for example, made their wigwams by covering a wood frame with hide and then covering the hide with bark. When an Ojibwa family moved to a new location, the hide was rolled up and taken with them. The frame stayed. When they returned the following year, or several years later, they simply unrolled the covering they always carried, and placed it on the frame. If a frame was not available, they would make a new one.

Today, Native Americans live in houses just like yours and mine. But in olden times, many parts of the country had its own distinctive style of home.

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Yes because some foods could not grow in different seasons

Waabishkimiimiig (single vowels have short vowel sounds, double vowels have long vowel sounds)

"The name Midewiwin (also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin) is derived from a Native American term for the Grand Medicine Society, a super-secret society of which today members would nominally be called by others than the Medewiwin, Shamans. Tribal groups who had such societies include the Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, the last of whom were prominent residents of the Midewiwin National Tallgrass Prairie region from the mid 1700’s to the early to mid-1800’s. According to the Potawatomi, Mide’ or Mida (pronounced mid-day), means ‘mystic’ or ‘mystically powerful.’ The curing rituals performed by the members of the Midewiwin relied heavily on a tradition that incorporated mystical elements arising from the beliefs about the spirits that protected the A-nish’-in-a’ beg (term used by the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwa, and Menomonee to describe “the original people." http://www.geocities.com/the_wanderling/midewiwin.html

None of the pure Plains tribes made any ceramic pottery of any kind - it was too heavy and too fragile to be constantly transported by horse from camp-site to camp-site. Some of the marginally Plains groups such as the Omaha made wooden bowls from burrs on trees, but there is no evidence for the Sioux tribes doing this.

Cooking was generally done in a sack made from the stomach of a buffalo suspended on a wooden frame over the fire; large spoons of buffalo or mountain sheep horn would then be filled from this "pot" and handed to each of the diners, so the spoons also acted as bowls. Some foods, such as sausages made from stuffed intestines, needed no bowl. Many buffalo horn spoons survive in museums - some have beadwork decoration around the handle.

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did you know that the ojibwa people speak English but most native