Culture + History
What parts of what we now call Canada did the Anishinaabe live?
What is 'Northern/Central Ontario and Southern Manitoba'?
What was used to represent the different members of the Anishinaabe clan system?
What is 'animals'?
The Anishinaabe believed in _______ & _______.
What is 'equality and balance'?
What food source set the Anishinaabe apart from other First Nations Peoples?
T/F: The Anishinaabe had a grand council to solve family/clan affairs.
False: they looked after their own affairs, typically.
Humans, in the story told by Benton-Banai, are called the ______ people?
What is 'second'?
What did the Europeans call the Anishinaabe? (Two answers)
What is 'Ojibway' or 'Saulteaux'?
What does wisdom mean to the Anishinaabe?
What is 'To cherish knowledge'?
Who did not participate in the harvest?
What is 'dudes'?
What is the Anishinaabe word for their unique food source?
What is: mamomin?
What qualities were valued in the chosen leader of a clan?
What are: courage, good character, or skill at hunting.
What was the helper's name?
Who is 'Osh-ka-bay-wis'?
What does Anishinaabe mean?
What is 'The People'?
What are the seven Anishinaabe values?
What is
- Wisdom: to cherish knowledge
- Love: To know peace
- Respect: To honour all of creation
- Bravery: To face your foe
- Honesty: To face a situation
- Humility: To know yourself
- Truth: To know all these things
Women played an important role in the economy; give two examples of why this is true?
- Took care of housing/childcare
- Hunted small game
- Harvested rice/fruits/berries
- Dried and stored food for winter months.
The Anishinaabe would mark these trees with axes to show that they had been claimed?
What is 'Maple tree'?
What was the responsibility of the Bear clan?
To be a source of strength-- to patrol the land.
What did the helper do to help humanity?
What is: 'showed a baby boy the world, to teach him how to live properly'.
Where does the Anishinaabe word for Wild Rice come from? (two words)
Manitou - Great Spirit
Meenun - Delicacy
What is the difference between bravery and honesty, according to the Anishinaabe?
Bravery: to face foes
Honesty: to face a situation
How did women distribute harvests equally among families?
What is 'tied coloured twine to tall stocks'?
The Anishinaabe share this trait with the Mi'kmaq:
What is: they are both hunter-gatherers.
Who solved disputes between the Loon and Crane clans?
The Fish clan.
Who guided the boy back to his family?
What is: an otter?
What were the six Anishinaabe clans?
What is 'bird, martens, fish, loon & crane, bear, and deer'?
What were the duties of the Fish clan?
What is 'Education and resolving disputes'?
The Anishinaabe shared an understanding about earth:
Thinking about the world as “Mother Earth — and Earth as a Mother” leads [...] “to the understanding of the ability we have to share in the bounty of Earth, but not make decisions for the Earth and not to sell the Earth — but to live in relationship with it.”
What Anishinaabe farming practice best represents this idea?
To leave some rice unharvested every year, so as to healthily continue the cycle of harvest and growth.
What technique was used by the Anishinaabe to remove chaff from their rice harvests?
What is 'Winnowing'?
What do the Loon and Crane each represent?
Loon: Leaders in matters within the community
Crane: Leaders in matters outside the community
What did the old man's gift represent?
What is: 'The power, love, and mercy of the creator'?