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  2. Anishinaabe traditional beliefs - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Anishinaabe - Wikipedia

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    The Anishinaabe use of the clan system represents familial, spiritual, economic and political relations between members of their communities. Often an animal is used to represent a person's clan or dodem but plants and other spirit beings are sometimes used as well. The word dodem means "the heart or core of a person". There are different ...

  4. Seven fires prophecy - Wikipedia

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    The seven fires of the prophecy represent key spiritual teachings for North America, and suggest that the different colors and traditions of the human beings can come together on a basis of respect. It contains information for the future lives of the Anishinaabe which are still in the process of being fulfilled. [1]

  5. Gitche Manitou - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Anishinaabe clan system - Wikipedia

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    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 society.

  7. Wabunowin - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. New tribal law protects culturally significant cedar trees - AOL

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    According to a recently published book of Anishinaabe teachings and practices, "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask," the white cedar trees were crucial in parts of tribal ...

  9. Nipissing First Nation - Wikipedia

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    Nipissing First Nation (Ojibwe: Nipissing, Niipsing, Nbisiing), meaning "place of little waters", is a long-standing community of Nishnaabeg peoples, who traditionally speak Anishinaabemwin, [2] located along the shorelines of Lake Nipissing in northern Ontario.