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The Midewiwin society is a secretive animistic religion, requiring an initiation, and then progressing to four levels of practitioners, called "degrees". Occasionally, male Midew are called Midewinini, which sometimes is very loosely translated into English as "medicine man".
Always be honest in word and action. Be honest first with yourself, and you will more easily be able to be honest with others. In the Anishinaabe language, this word can also mean "righteousness." Dabaadendiziwin —Humility (Wolf): [5] Humility is to know yourself as a sacred part of Creation. In the Anishinaabe language, this word can also ...
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".
Historically, Anishinaabe people believed in a variety of spirits, whose images were placed near doorways for protection. According to Anishinaabeg tradition, Michilimackinac , later named by European settlers as Mackinac Island , in Michigan, was the home of Gitche Manitou, and some Anishinaabeg tribes would make pilgrimages there for rituals ...
Anishinaabe Giizhigad is the Anishinaabemowin translation of "Anishinaabe Day." [3] "Anishinaabe" means "person" or a "Native person (in contrast to non-Native)." [4] Transcribed into syllabics, it becomes "ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᐟ" in the North and "ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᑦ" in the East.
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The exonym for this Anishinaabe group is Ojibwe (plural: Ojibweg). This word has two variations, one French (Ojibwa) and the other English (Chippewa). [8] Although many variations exist in the literature, Chippewa is more common in the United States, and Ojibway predominates in Canada, [9] but both terms are used in each country.
The Council of Three Fires (in Anishinaabe: Niswi-mishkodewinan, also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Odawa (or Ottawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes.