Who Were the Ojibwe?
These People that lived along the Great Lakes.
Who are the Ojibwe?
This is the definition of migration.
What is moving from one place to another?
The Ojibwe word for 'wild rice'.
What is manoomin?
These are the people they shared food with.
What are friends and neighbors?
Why they told stories.
What is to preserve their history and teach lessons?
The Ojibwe's main activities.
What were hunting, fishing, and gathering?
This is how many main places they stopped at during their journey.
What is 7?
The reason wild rice was so important.
What is it was their main food source?
These were the activities done in the spring.
What is fishing and making maple sugar?
The reason for Ojibwe ceremonies.
What is to honor the spirits?
This is how they passed on their culture.
What is through stories and ceremonies?
How the Ojibwe traveled during migration.
What is by canoe and on foot?
How they harvested wild rice.
What are canoes and knocked sticks?
These were activities women did in the summer.
What is planting crops and picking berries?
How they showed respect to nature.
What is through gifts and offerings of thanks?
A permanent house with a round top covered in birchbark.
What is a wigwam?
The reason the Ojibwe moved West.
What is A prophet told them to find "food that grows on water." ?
This is how wild rice is harvested today.
These were the main winter activities.
What is storytelling and hunting?
These people were the most honored in the Ojibwe community.
Who were the elders?
The true meaning of Sovereign.
What is having self-rule and independence?
What guided them to their destination.
What is a prophet?
This is the words for stepping on the wild rice and then letting the shell separate from the rice itself.
What is winnowing and hulling?
This is how the Ojibwe were able to keep food for the whole winter.
What is drying or dehydrating their food?
This was the role of the elders in the community.
What was to make decisions and provide wisdom?