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Ojibwa By Natalie and Erik and Daniel
Homes Ojibwa people lived in wigwams made of birchbark.Wigwams were 8-10 feet tall. Wigwams were made of wooden frams.With sheets corved with birch bark. Some wigwams were shaped like a dome and have a half oval and rectangular and some of the other wigwams look like a cone. Its not a tipi it’s a cone shaped wigwam
Food • What did they eat • Ojibwa tribes ate wild rice, corn, grains and meat deer raccoon squirrels and fish and vetabls and fruits. • How did they get it • They got there wild rice when they where in there canoes and past the wild rice they would tap it with there ores and harvest it. • To get the fish they where some ways they get the fish cold stab the fish or build traps. • They grow corn then after that they harvest the corn then eat it. • Ojibwa was known for growing and gardening vegetables and fruits. • They got there wild meat by traps but they usually used there weapons like bows arose spears and clubs
Clothing What did men wear? Leggings and breechcloths. A breechcloth is a long rectangular piece of tanned deerskin What did women wear? Women wore long presses Long presses Where made from Wool , yarn and string they where decorated with beadwork
Roles in the Tribe • Adults Men where hunters and sometimes they fighted with other families to protect their own and the men went to fight when the mother stayed home with the children. • Children hunting and fishing with there farther
Where did they live? They lived in Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan they also live in Sothern Canada Ontario Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Special Skill • Ojibwa (kid)mostly play it string game • They where known for planting /gardening. • The type of game hunting and they did Ojibwa string game.
Arts and Crafts • Their art work could be beadwork. Some Ojibwa arts are made from birch bark like a baskets , Boxes and dream catchers.
Resources • Erik newengham-Member of the Odawa tribe • Michigan Social Mitten-September 2001 issue • The Studies Weekly-Vol. 8 Issue 1, First Quarter Week 7 • Great State Michigan-October 2004 issue • Ottawa Indian Fact Sheet- http://www.bigorrin.org/ottawa_kids.htm