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100

How many stops did the Ojibwe make on their journey to the midwest?

7 of them things

100

What is the round dwelling the Ojibwe used as a place to live made of birchbark?

Wigwams

100
What is the Ojibwe word for winter?

biboon

100

TRUE OR FALSE

The Ojibwe migrated from the East Coast.

TRUE
100

What sport was played by the Ojibwe?

Lacrosse

200

What did the prophets tell the Ojibwe to look for?

Wild Rice or manoomin

200

What is gitchigami?

Lake Superior

200

What are the four steps in order to harvesting wild rice?

1) Harvest

2) Parch

3) Dance

4) Winnow

200

TRUE OR FALSE

It took 45 gallons of sap to make 1 pound or gallon of syrup/sugar.

FALSE

It took 40 gallons of sap.

200

What did the Ojibwe use to travel on the water?

Birchbark Canoes

300

What was the first stop the Ojibwe made on their journey? (SPELLING COUNTS)

Montreal

300

What is the Ojibwe word for birchbark? (SPELLING MATTERS)

Wiigwaas

300

Who fished in the summer? What did they fish with?

Who fished in the winter? What did they fish with?

Summer: Women / Nets

Winter: Men / Spears

300

What word means "original people"?

Anishinaabe

300

What camps did the Ojibwe stay at in the spring?

Sugar Camps

400

What was the last stop of the journey the Ojibwe made? (SPELLING MATTERS)

Chequamegon Bay

400

What is the Ojibwe word for corn? Spelling has to be correct!!!

mandaamin

400

What university has classes on Ojibwe language that the book talks about?

Bemidji State University

400

FREE 400 POINTS

For The lowest scoring team!!!

400

What game did the Ojibwe children play in the winter?

snow-snake

500

The Ojibwe split into three groups on their journey, what were the three names of the groups?

Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and the Ottawa

500

What is the Ojibwe word for Maple Sugar? (SPELLING MATTERS)

ziinzibaakwad

500

-DAILY DOUBLE-

What did the Ojibwe and Dakota gain from the alliance made around 1679?

1) They had no warfare for many years.

2) The Ojibwe were able to travel into what is now Northern Minnesota

3) The Dakota gained access to new and better trade goods from the Europeans

500

How was Ojibwe life connected to nature?

Lived near the maple groves, lakes, rivers, pine forests, and marshes.

Fished, hunted game, harvested wild rice, and made sugar from maple sap. 

Built homes from natural materials in the area where they lived. Moved place to place each season for different activities.

500

Red Lake Nation Foods sells how many pounds of cultivated wild rice every year?

500,000