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Chippewa Indians
The Chippewa or Ojibwe refer to the same people and are one of the most populous and widely distributed Indian groups in North America. The tribe call themselves Anishinabe in their own language, which means 'original person.' Lands include Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario and Manitoba.
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Who is famous chippewa Indians?
"Chippewa" is the US name for the tribe more widely known as Ojibwe or Ojibwa, but whose real name is Anishinaabe.
A few important chiefs in the tribe's history include:
- Hole in the Day (or Hole in the Sky), a Minnesota war chief whose ancestor had the same name.
- Mamongeseda
- Curly Head
- Shingwaukonse
- Nabunagoging
- Menissinowenninne
- Ne-bah-quah-om (Big Dog)
- Chief Buffalo
Were the ojibwa matriarchal or patriarchal?
Matriarchal in most sense of that definition. The females owned the property and carried the name, if you married you joined her family. So in that sense they were matriarchal. Although she had no voice in council, so in that sense Patriarchal.
Tribal societies were balanced between both, each having their power in their respective realms.
What is the ojibwa word for wolf?
In Mohawk the word for wolf is okwaho.
In Seneca the word for wolf is: tha:yö:nih
In Cayuga the word for wolf is: otahy:ni:
In Onondaga the word for wolf is: thahyų:nih
In Cherokee (an Iroquoian language) the word for wolf is wahya.
How do you say great grandmother in ojibwa?
Ojibwe is made up of many different dialects, so as a result there are many different words meaning "spirit" in the Ojibwe language:
- aadisookaan
- achaag
- achaak
- ojaak
- bawaagan (a guardian spirit animal)
- bawaajigan mayaajiiging (a guardian spirit plant)
- gichi-manidoo (Great Spirit)
- gichi-ojichaag (Holy Spirit
- giizis (sun spirit)
- jiibay (spirit of the dead)
- Jiibayaabooz (spirit rabbit)
- maji-achaag (bad spirit)
- maji-aya`aa (evil spirit)
- Makwa Manidoo (bear spirit)
- Manidoo-bizhiki (buffalo spirit)
- zhaawanosii (south spirit)
- ninjaak (my spirit)
im sure they did something. if u r seriously asking the question wt did they do, u need to be more specific
How did the ojibwa first nations use their environment to survive?
flora was a natural resource they needed many of them they were usefull in there palace
What does the wolf mean to Ojibwa native Americans?
The wolf symbolizes different things to different tribes. For us, the wolf symbolizes strength , intelligence, cunning and a being close to the spirit world.
One translation of the word 'ojibwa'' means ''puckered up'' and probably refers to the puckered seams on Ojibwa moccasins.
Is Ojibwa the same as Chippewa?
The real name of the tribe is Anishinaabe, referring to a tribal tradition about their origin.
The terms Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa and Ojibway are all poor attempts by early explorers to pronounce the word ojiibwabwe(puckered up), referring to the distinctive style of their moccasins. All of these names are equally incorrect, but widely used today.
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What are the Ojibwa's houses called?
In the woodlands, Ojibway people lived in villages of birchbark houses called waginogans, or wigwams.
What are the rules and rituals of the Chippewa?
The Chippewa or Ojibwe people practice rituals similar to other native American tribes. The use of a sweat lodge and psychoactive plants to induce hallucination was one of the rituals practiced.
Do Native Americans off reservations have to pay taxes?
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.
What was ojibwa clothing made of?
Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Chippewa or Anishinaabe women anciently wore only a wrap-around buckskin skirt with a robe added in cool weather. By the time of European contact they wore strap-and-sleeve dresses; these had shoulder straps, were mid-calf in length and featured detachable sleeves tied on with leather thongs and fastened at the wrist - with no underarm seam. These dresses were decorated with red, black and yellow paint, bird claws, porcupine quills and little nuggets of native copper. Leggings were knee-length and sometimes an underskirt of woven nettle fibres was worn.
Women usually parted their hair in the centre and pulled it back to form a single rear braid, or there were two front braids wrapped in eel skin, or the hair was worn loose. Red and yellow paint were used to colour the parting.
When trade cloth became available, dresses were made of that material but in the traditional style. During the 1800s and probably due to the influence of other tribes, Ojibwa women began to wear full-length dresses made of two complete deer hides (see the link below for an example of this later style).
Headbands were never a feature of historic Ojibwa women's costume until very recent times.
The links below take you to images of Ojibwa women in traditional costume:
Where were the ojibwe Indians originally from?
modern day Ojibwe live in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and southern Canada. we use to live on the upper east coast of us and southern Canada
What region did the Native American tribe Chippewa live in?
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.
