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The Anishinaabe speak Anishinaabemowin, or Anishinaabe languages that belong to the Algonquian language family. At the time of first contact with Europeans they lived in the Northeast Woodlands and the Subarctic, and some have since spread to the Great Plains. The word Anishinaabe means "people from whence lowered".
Amik (beaver) is a being in traditional Anishinaabe stories that creates shared worlds. [5] The stories of Amik’s creations and how Amik teaches their child about the world serves to provide a greater understanding of relationships and what is important in life. Nokomis (grandmother) is another being from Anishinaabe folklore.
As the memory of people had been wiped clean. Anishinaabe Toodaims: is the social fabric context for politics, kinship, and identity of the Anishinawbeg peoples. The men established "a framework of social organization to give them strength and order" [ 2 ] in which each totem represents a core branch of knowledge and responsibility essential to ...
Traditionally the Anishinaabe peoples only told certain traditions during biboon (winter). This was because the underwater Manidoo hibernated at that time. Because of this the Waabanowin would recount the Nanabozho and creation stories as a part of the winter ceremonies.
This system of kinship reflects the Anishinaabe philosophy of interconnectedness and balance among all living generations, as well as of all generations of the past and of the future. The Ojibwe people were divided into a number of doodemag (clans; singular: doodem) named primarily for animals and birds totems (pronounced doodem). The word in ...
Anishinaabe people (5 C, 1 P) Anishinaabe tribal political organizations (12 C, 13 P) T. Anishinaabe tribal treaty administrants (6 P)
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They are sometimes called the Anihšināpē (Anishinaabe). [1] Saulteaux is a French term meaning "people of the rapids," referring to their former location in the area of Sault Ste. Marie. They are primarily hunters and fishers, and when still the primary dwellers of their sovereign land, they had extensive trading relations with the French ...