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 />
mountains are not just a place of beauty and a place to dream, a place to seek and fulfill personal visions; they<br />
are gekinoo'amaagedjig, teachers as well. It is very imaginable that it was through the mountains or the<br />
vicinity of the mountains, through their often savage, inhospitable, and mysterious character but also the<br />
breathtaking, panoramic beauty they hold and display, that Simone's ancestors discovered and acknowledged –<br />
and learned to appreciate and cherish - the existence of GICHI-MANIDOO, the sum of all Mystery, the original<br />
source of all Life. No other place, no landform, no physical feature of Mother Earth could do that better than the<br />
mountains. <strong>The</strong>re were no other places on AKI (Earth) that filled the <strong>Anishinaabe</strong> people with more humbleness<br />
and gratitude than the mountains, or the proximity of the mountains. No other place moved them to such awe<br />
or so led their minds to thoughts of GICH-MANIDOO and GAAGIGEKAMIG (infinity) as did the mountains. And<br />
no force on AKI allowed the <strong>Anishinaabe</strong> people to understand more profoundly their unique place in relation to<br />
all other living beings, yes to their unique place in the whole of cosmos, as did asiniiwajiw mishoomishag, the<br />
mountain grandfathers in the West…<br />
This knowledge, this understanding, is something we owe to the creator of this magnificent painting. It is a gift<br />
to be grateful for, because through her work, this gift to us, it was she who has brought the grandfathers back<br />
to life, for all of us to see.<br />
Click on image to view details of this collar necklace designed and handcrafted by Zhaawano Giizhik.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Universe of <strong>The</strong> Ojibwe <strong>Anishinaabe</strong>g by Zhaawano Giizhik - 2014<br />
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