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"Mooz" is the Ojibwe word for this animal
What are moose?
This season includes months sometimes called Ode'imini-giizis (the Strawberry Moon) and Miinikewi-giizis (the Blueberry Moon) in the Ojibwe language due to these berries ripening during this time of year
What is summer?
The Ojibwe people traveled from this direction during their Great Migration
What direction is east?
Ojibwe people traditionally use this system to categorize themselves into different roles in the tribe and are represented by animals such as the eagle, bear, and caribou.
What are clans?
This piece of clothing is called "makizinan" in Ojibwe and was adopted into the English language using a very similar word.
What are moccasins/shoes?
This is the season when Ojibwe people traditionally collected sap to make maple sugar because it was usually below freezing at night and above freezing during the day, allowing sap to flow more freely
Which season is spring?
Ojibwe children were sent to these types of schools in order to assimilate them to Western culture. Although they ended in 1976, the effects of them are still seen today.
What are boarding schools?
Examples of uses of these important parts of Ojibwe culture include burning sage to smudge, offering tobacco, and braiding sweetgrass.
What are traditional medicines?
"Boozhoo" is this greeting used by Ojibwe people
What is the Ojibwe word for "hello?"
This is the season when Ojibwe people traditionally harvested and processed the highly culturally significant food that grows in the water known as wild rice using canoes and knocking sticks
Which season is fall?
This group of people traded with the Ojibwe people during the fur trade in the mid-1600s to the 1760s
Who are the French?
Ojibwe people harvest bark from this type of tree to make things like baskets, canoes, and dwellings
What is the birch tree?
These Ojibwe people, known as "Zaagwakokwaandagininiwag," are separate from Lake Superior and Mississippi Ojibwe people in Minnesota and are from the tribal nations closest to here
Who are Bois Forters?
The art of storytelling was practiced during this season in order to pass down history, cultural values, and spiritual teaching from one generation to another
What is winter?
These types of legal documents are still used by Ojibwe people to practice things like hunting, fishing, and gathering on traditional lands and were signed from 1785 to 1867.
What are treaties?
Ojibwe people typically make this type of design to adorn clothing and accessories with things such as glass beads or porcupine quills
What are floral designs?
Gichigami is the name typically used for this big lake in Minnesota
What is Lake Superior?
Ojibwe people used these nighttime patterns in the sky to determine when to move camps from season to season
What are constellations?
This is the right of tribal nations to self-govern and sustain themselves with aspects such as healthcare and education without the interference of state and federal oversight.
What is sovereignty?
Native American people are known for having the highest of these per capita, with the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa having the highest of all Native American groups, due to many cultural teachings, including feeling duty to protect and preserve land, people, and traditions.
What are military service members?