Anishinaabe/Ojibwe
These states are the primary states where the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe peoples live.
What is Minnesota and Wisconsin?
Bonus points if Canada is mentioned!
This state's capital is St. Paul and is known for it's 10,000+ lakes.
What is Minnesota?
Native Americans have different opinions about these names and how they would like to be called.
What is American Indians, Natives, Indigenous, First Nation, or by their tribes?
This is the language of the Dakota people.
What is the Dakota language or English?
This is seeing someone highly and holding them in high regard. If you are treating someone with this, you are valuing their time and words.
What is respect?
This reservation was mentioned in a video in class, and is located in Wisconsin.
What is the Bad River Reservation?
This state is the largest state by area.
What is Alaska?
Native Americans were pushed in this direction of the United States when European colonizers came to America.
What is west?
These states are home to the Dakota people. (Name at least 2)
What is Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota?
Our traditions, music, religions, fashion and dress, and food are all examples of this.
What is culture?
This food is a big part of Ojibwe culture.
What is wild rice?
This state borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and is known for its alligators.
What is Florida?
This tribe was pushed west in what is known as the Trail of Tears.
What is the Cherokee?
This is another name often used to describe the Dakota people, but is really a broader term that also encompasses the Lakota and Nakota.
What is the Sioux?
This is an inappropriate adaptation of part of someone's culture by someone that does not share in that culture.
This is the language of the Anishinaabe people.
What is Ojibwe language (Anishinaabemowin) and English?
This state was the most recent state to join the U.S., officially becoming a state in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
Native Americans were pushed onto reservations after being forced to sign these in order to live peacefully.
What are treaties?
The Dakota people often did this to gain new materials/food/guns from white colonizers and other neighboring tribes.
What is trade?
Provide an example of culture appropriation or mocking.
Student will share an example such as this: wearing traditional clothing of another culture and making fun of it.
Name one of the Ojibwe reservations in Minnesota.
What is Grand Portage, Bois Forte, Red Lake, White Earth, Leech Lake, Fond du Lac, or Mille Lacs?
This state is home to much of America's young history, including the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and the Gettysburg address.
What is Pennsylvania?
Native Americans have these, where they celebrate their culture with traditional dance, music, and dance. To this day, these events are something they look forward to and come together to celebrate in.
What are pow-wows?
Dakota means this in their language.
What is "ally" or "friend"?
Explain how we as a class should be expected to act if we get the opportunity to have a speaker in class, go visit a reservation, or interview.
-Respect for their time and culture.
-No snickering or laughing: this is mocking.
-Avoid assuming.
-Remember, just because Natives celebrate a different culture than us, doesn't mean that they are different or less than us. We are all equals!