The Traditional Anishinaabe World View.pdf
Illustrated glossary offering a cross section of the traditional worldview of the Ojibwe Anishinaabeg, who for the past 1000 years or more inhabit Gaa-zaaga'ekanikaag, the Land of Many Lakes ( the North American Great Lakes area).
Illustrated glossary offering a cross section of the traditional worldview of the Ojibwe Anishinaabeg, who for the past 1000 years or more inhabit Gaa-zaaga'ekanikaag, the Land of Many Lakes ( the North American Great Lakes area).
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<strong>The</strong> Universe of <strong>The</strong> Ojibwe <strong>Anishinaabe</strong>g by Zhaawano Giizhik - 2014<br />
Wikwemikong Ojibwe painter James Mishibinijima: “Great Lakes” (Birchbark Pictograph)(Click on image)<br />
NIBI: <strong>The</strong> Spirit Of <strong>The</strong> Water. For six<br />
centuries or more, the Great Lakes basin,<br />
whose abundant waters, ebbing<br />
and flowing with the seasons, feed into the<br />
North American continent and the Atlantic<br />
Ocean, has been the home of my<br />
distant ancestors, who for generations<br />
have lived close to the water’s edge to<br />
survive.<br />
Since the days when these Algonquian<br />
speaking immigrants first came to this<br />
region of bountiful freshwater lakes and islands and rivers and forests, its waters have<br />
nourished many generations of the People, physically as well as spiritually.<br />
Along with water, all kinds of fish species, turtle spirits, snakes, muskrats, water birds,<br />
mermen and mermaids, underwater panthers (see above image), and a myriad of other<br />
water creatures, play a central role in the traditional narrations and creation stories for<br />
several <strong>Anishinaabe</strong> Nations that surround the Lakes.<br />
From time immemorial, these proud Lake People with a shared ancestry go by the names<br />
of:<br />
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Ojibweg (Ojibwe)<br />
Misizaagiwininiwag (Mississauga)<br />
Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi)<br />
Odaawaag (Odawa),<br />
Omàmiwininiwak (Algonquin),<br />
Odishkwaagamiig (N'biising, Nipissing), and<br />
Mamaceqtaw (Menominee).<br />
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