Vocabulary 1
The process of moving from one region or country to another
What is migration?
A popular team sport played on a large open field. Players used a stick with a pouch on the end to catch and throw a leather ball.
What is Lacrosse?
According to the Ojibwe migration story, the number of stops their ancestors made on their journey to the place where "food grows on water"?
What is 7?
Name the place where the Ojibwe traveled to and settled in the sping.
Name where the Ojibwe traveled to and settled during the fall.
What is ponds, marshes, and lakes where the wild rice grew?
The bark or outer covering of a tree
What is birchbark?
The sweet substance made from boiling sap from a maple tree.
What is maple syrup?
Name the direction, West Coast to Minnesota, or East Coast to Great Lakes to Minnesota or from the south following the Mississippi River north to Minnesota, that describes the Ojibwe migration route.
What is East Coast to Great Lakes to Minnesota?
Name the main activity that the Ojibwe did during the spring season.
What is turning maple sap into sugar?
Name the main activity the Ojibwe did during the fall.
What is wild ricing?
A round dwelling made out of poles and saplings and covered with sheets of birchbark or woven mats
What is a wigwam?
This refers to the crops: corn, beans and squash. Together, the crops grew much better than each did on its own.
What are Three Sisters?
Name what the Ojibwe people believe is needed to truly understand Oibwe history and culture
What is learn the language?
Name another activity that the Ojibwe did during the spring
What is men hunted, made birchbark canoes or repaired existing wigwams?
Name a job the Ojibwe men had during the fall season.
a tall grass that grows shallow, still waters
An agreement made between two or more nations (or allies) to cooperate for specific reasons.
What is an alliance?
Name one way the oral tradition connects Ojibwe people to each other, to the past and to the future
What is: storytelling, speech or song through which the Ojibwe shared their values, way of life, and culture with each other?
Name where the Ojibwe traveled to and settled during the summer season.
What is Summer Villages by a river or lake?
Name where the Ojibwe migrated to and settled in the winter.
What is wigwams in the pine forest?
The use of speech and song to share the culture and history of a group
The power to be self-ruling and independent
sovereign
Another name for the Ojibwe people
What is Anishinaabe?
Name one job the Ojibwe women did during the summer
What is planted and tended crops, or harvested berries?
Name one job of the women and one job of the men during the winter season.
What is the women cooked meals, made clothing, or wove fishing nets and hunting bags? What is the men hunted and trapped animals?