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Ojibwe People's Dictionary—Online audio Ojibwe-English dictionary for the Anishinaabemowin language with 17,000+ words, 60,000 audio clips by Ojibwe elders from Minnesota and Ontario, and related images/documents/videos.
Inaugurated in 2022, Anishinaabe Day or Anishinaabe Giizhigad (ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᐟ; ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᑦ) is the national holiday for the Anishinabek Nation. It is celebrated by the approximately 65,000 citizens hailing from the union of 39 First Nations in Ontario [ 1 ] as a reflection of the proclamation of the Nation's ...
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".
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.
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 ...
The goal of political governance in Anishinaabe constitutional order is harmony. Harmony does not refer to a lack of conflict, but to a web of relationships in which each member’s needs are met and rely upon others. [33] Grand Council Treaty No. 3 is the traditional government of the Nation. [34]
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 ...
^[1] A subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family; distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the indigenous Ojibwe language (below). ^[2] Distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect.