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 />
Detail of a sacred OMide scroll from Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (White Eath) depicting portion of a mnemonic song. Click on image.<br />
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GIIGOONH: <strong>The</strong> sight of the flashing of silvered tails in shiny lakes and rushing streams<br />
pleased the eyes of the <strong>Anishinaabe</strong>g so, that they chose the silent spirit of giigoonh, the<br />
fish, to be emblematic of teaching. To this day AWAASIINH the catfish, AGWADAASHIINS<br />
the sunfish, GINOOZHE the pike, NAMEBIN the sucker, NAME the sturgeon, and<br />
ADIKAMEG the whitefish represent the Ojibwe doodem (totem) of Learning, or Science.<br />
Giigoonh doodemag (Fish Clan) people are mediators between the Crane and Loon clans<br />
and traditionally responsible for passing on knowledge and healing stories. Fish Clan are<br />
the teachers, scholars, and the intellectuals of the People. <strong>The</strong>ir members, known for<br />
long life and baldness in old age, claim that in the distant past, when the <strong>Anishinaabe</strong>g<br />
still lived in the Land of Dawn, their clan had been the first of the original doodemag to<br />
appear out of the Atlantic ocean.<br />
Norval Morrisseau: Untitled (Trout), 1990’s<br />
<strong>The</strong>re exist a variety of fish spirits of two types, the first being Mishiibizhiwag, the<br />
Underwater Panthers, and the other being Misi-ginebig, the Sea Serpent who provides<br />
Knowledge of Medicinal herbs. Underwater Manidoog were not considered evil, and not<br />
always dangerous. <strong>The</strong>y were supposed to possess powers that assist other water beings<br />
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