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Ojibway

Ojibway. Who are the Ojibway?.

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Ojibway

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  1. Ojibway

  2. Who are the Ojibway? • Chippewa, Ojibway, “Ojibwe”and “Ojibwa, all refer to the same people. In the United States more people use “Chippewa” and in Canada more people use “Ojibway”. The Ojibway people call themselves “Anishinabe” which means, in their own language, “original person”. The Ojibway are one of the largest American Indian Groups in North America. They have nearly 150 bands of Chippewa Indians throughout the northern United States, especially Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

  3. History of the Ojibway • During the 1700’s, the Ojibway established themselves in the region around Mille Lacs Lake which is now known as Central Minnesota. They sustained themselves by hunting deer, bear, moose, waterfowl, and small game; fishing the area’s lakes and streams; gathering wild rice, maple sugar and berries; and cultivating plants.

  4. Tradition: • Hunters • Farmers • Craftsmen • Artist/sculptors

  5. Traditional religious beliefs; • Spirituality: • Ojibway spirituality centers around certain customs and beliefs, concepts, events, and objects. These include the sweat lodges pipe, drums, singing, the naming ceremony, prayer, vision questing and guardian spirits, the Pow Wow the medicine man or woman (shamans), medicine bags, dream articles and traditional stories regarding the Great Spirit, Creation Original Man, The Flood, etc. Ritual and spiritual objects include sage, sweetgrass, tobacco, and cedar. Dogs were akin to the sacrificial lambs of early directions of North, Christianity. There are 4 seasons and 4 grandfathers (or 4 powers of the universe) sit at the four cardinal

  6. Traditional roles in Ojibwe society • Men women and children all have roles in tradition Ojibwe society. The men are the providers and protectors. The women were farmers and also did most of the child care and cooking. The children learned to put community before self, to honor, respect and listen to elders.

  7. Ojibwe children in present: • Present problems; • 80% dropout rate • tobacco, alcohol and substance abuse earlier and at higher rates then any other ethnic group • American Indian children more likely to be low -income

  8. Teaching Strategies for native children: • Native American: What Not to Teach. by June Sark • Teachers Corner: Erasing Native American stereotypes • Sample lesson plan

  9. Teaching Resources • Schick, Eleanor “My Navajo Sister” (1996) Simon and Shuster. New York . • Indian givers: how the Indians of the Americas transformed the world / Jack Weatherford. • Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac. • Rappaport, Doreen(2002)We Are The Many • Striate. (1950) How the Indians Brought the Farm

  10. References • Callahan,k.(2006)An Introduction to Ojibway Culture and History • Clyde, E. (1996) Boarding School Life at the Kiowa-Comanche Agency, 1893-1920.Histoian.Oklahoma: 58. 777. • Boulard, G. (2005)Setting the Record Straight. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 22. 52. • Pewewardy, C.(1995)The Crisis in American Indian Education: A Trail of Tears- Part II.The Circle. 16. 17. • Schinke,S. Tepacavac, L. Cole, K.(2000) Preventing Substance use Among Native American Youth: Three Year Results. Addictive Behaviors. 25. 387.

  11. Internet Sources • www.cdf-mn.org • www.mnsu.edu • www.tolatsga.org • www.ancestraltrails.org

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