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The Universe of The Ojibwe Anishinaabeg by Zhaawano Giizhik - 2014
A contemporary Three Fires Midewiwin Teaching log at Garden River First Nation’s Reserve, Ontario (Click on
image)
good in life and the gift of good health, withdraws into the very depths of his or her soul;
so that he or she, in his or her turn, can teach bimaadiziiwin (the good way of life) and
embody it and pass it on to others.
Finally, after unwrapping the bearskin casing of the Sacred Drum, the attendants sing
the mystic chants that Makadeshigan once taught the ancestors. These sacred petitions
are carried by the drumbeats and sound of rattles from the present to infinite space,
where, provided that the ceremony has been properly conducted, the aadizoogaanag
might hear them and deliver them to GICHI-MANIDOO in the upper world, and to
Makadeshigan in the underworld. After this the ceremony draws to an end; and the
Midewewininiwag and Midewikweg dance and feast in thanksgiving.
The Three Fires Lodge
The Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge is a contemporary revival movement of the Midewiwin.
It was inspired by the historic, pre-Columbian, Algonkian-speaking confederacy of Native
American nations knows as the Three Fires Confederacy. Indigenous nations known as
the Mamaceqtaw (Menominee), Ojibweg (Ojibwe), Odaawaag (Odawa), and Bodéwadmik
(Potawatomi), who consider themselves as the Anishinaabe people, as well as other
Native nations, partake in the annual ceremonies of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge.
The revival of the Midewiwin Lodge is in accordance with the Seven Grandfather
prophecies and teachings, spiritually delivered to the Anishinaabe people long before the
predicted arrival of the Europeans on Turtle Island (North America).
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