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The moccasin game is a gambling game once played by most Native American tribes in North America. In the game, one player hides an object (traditionally a pebble, but more recently sometimes an old bullet or a ball) in one of several moccasins, but in such a way that the other player cannot easily see which moccasin it is in; that player then has to guess which moccasin contains the object.
Upon awaking in a forest at the start of "Reclaim!" — a video game created by Minnesota-based nonprofit Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia — a young Ojibwe girl realizes she must converse with ...
Johnston went to Sault Ste. Marie, a journey which then took several weeks, where he settled on the south side of the river. There Johnston met Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Woman of the Green Glade), daughter of Waubojeeg (White Fisher), a prominent Ojibwe war chief and civil leader from what is now northern Wisconsin. Johnston fell in love with Chief ...
Pugasaing (or the game of bowl and counters) is a Native American dice game played by the Ojibwe. [1] It is mentioned by name in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's poem, The Song of Hiawatha . [ 2 ] The word pugasaing is the participle form of the verb "to throw" in the Ojibwe language .
Ojibwe people may attribute ill health to sorcery, [244] and thus seek out a medicine man to assist in dealing with the problem. [245] Ojibwe may hide their cut hair, blood, saliva, or faeces to prevent it being used to cause them harm, reflecting the belief that such material holds an intrinsic connection to the person from which it came. [199]
According to Ojibwe legend, the protective charms originate with the Spider Woman, known as Asibikaashi; who takes care of the children and the people on the land and as the Ojibwe Nation spread to the corners of North America it became difficult for Asibikaashi to reach all the children, so the mothers and grandmothers wove webs for the ...
George Bonga followed in his father's footsteps and entered the fur trade. He first joined the American Fur Company as a voyageur. [6] In this role, Bonga drew the attention of Territorial Governor Lewis Cass, who hired him as an interpreter for a treaty council with the Ojibwe in Fond du Lac in 1820.
Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Ozhaawashkodewekwe: Woman of the Green Glade), also called Susan Johnston (c. 1775 – c. 1840), was an Ojibwe (also known as Ojibwa) woman and was an important figure in the Great Lakes fur trade before the War of 1812, as well as a political figure in Northern Michigan after the war.