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NATIVE AMERICANS
CHIPPEWA/OJIBWAY TRIBE

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHIPPEWA
AND OJIBWAY TRIBE
There is no difference. All these
different spellings refer to the same people. In
the United States more people use 'Chippewa,'
and in Canada more people use 'Ojibway,' but all
two of these spellings are common. The Ojibway
people call themselves Anishinabe in their own
language, which means 'original person.'

WHERE DID THE
CHIPPEWA TRIBE LIVE
The Chippewa’s are one of the largest American
Indian groups in North America. There are
nearly 150 different bands of Chippewa Indians
living throughout their original home land in the
northern United States
(especially Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan)
and southern Canada (especially Ontario,
Manitoba and Saskatchewan).

RED DOT = A BAND

WHAT KIND OF HOUSES DO
THE CHIPPEWA TRIBE LIVE IN?
The Chippewa’s live in two types of dwellings. In
the woodlands, the Chippewa people lived in
villages of birch bark houses called waginogans, or
wigwams. On the Great Plains, the Chippewa’s
lived in large buffalo-hide tents called tipis. The
Chippewa’s that lived in the Great Plains were
nomadic people, and tepees were easier to move
from place to place than a waginogan.

TEPEES

BIRCH BARK HOUSE

HOW THE
CHIPPEWA PEOPLE LIVE
Chippewa women were farmers and did most of
the child care and cooking. Men were hunters
and sometimes went to war to protect their
families. But adult in the tribe tells stories,
artwork and music, and traditional medicine.
Chippewa men and women worked together to
harvest wild rice. A Chippewa man used a pole
to steer through the reeds, while his wife
knocked rice grains into the canoe.

CLOTHES THE
CHIPPEWA PEOPLE WORE
Chippewa women wore long dresses with
removable sleeves. Chippewa men
wore breechcloths and leggings. Everybody
wore moccasins on their feet and cloaks or
ponchos in bad weather. Later, the Chippewa’s
adapted European costume such as cloth
blouses and jackets, decorating them with
fancy beadwork.

HOW DID COLONISATION
EFFECT THE CHIPPEWA TRIBE
European settlement had overwhelmingly
negative consequences for Native Americans.
Though Native American tribes did occasionally
form positive relationships with European
settlers. But permanent European settlement in
America eventually led to disease and
displacement.

. these
. . such
Native Americans had no immunity to
European diseases and illnesses . .
as smallpox which made the population
of many so tribes decrease. Over time, most
surviving tribes were forcibly relocated from their
traditional lands to make way for expanding
European settlements.

WHAT DID THE
CHIPPEWA PEOPLE EAT?
Woodland Chippewa’s were mostly farming
people, harvesting wild rice and corn, fishing,
hunting small game, and gathering nuts and
fruit. The Plains Chippewa’s were big-game
hunters, and buffalo meat made up most of their
diet.

CHIPPEWA’S FARMING