Anishinaabe

Stanislav Hud Ms. Schomer NBE 3 U 17 April 2024 Justin Scott as the representative of European Settlers In Waubgeshig Rice’s, Moon of the Crusted Snow, the author tells a tale about chaos on a fictional Anishinaabe reservation, how the community survives with limited energy, limited resources and the terrifying hardships they face. One of these hardships happens to be Justin Scott, a white man who mysteriously arrives on the reservation under the pretext that he would like to become part of…

The Mississippi River is a 2,340 mile long river. The name Mississippi comes from the Anishinaabe people who called the river 'Misi-ziibi' which means 'great river.’ Throughout that river is beauty, and mystery for those who seek it. In Mark Twain’s “Life On The Mississippi” describes his experiences on the Mississippi River, and how his viewpoint of the river changed from a positive to negative using figurative, and descriptive language. Twain begins with describing the face of the water in…

Interpretation of Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience Monkman’s exhibit is a demonstration of the narrative of relations between the Canadian government and Indigenous peoples, implying much of what he is trying to convey with the title of the collection. Each piece is interconnected and has some relevance to the story of Indigenous culture and its survival of the state’s attempts to assimilate or destroy the history and ways of life of the many Indigenous groups within…

The health of the natural world is required to sustain all life forms, as it provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. While the relationship between the natural world and humans is beneficial for our health on a biological level. For Indigenous peoples, the relationship with the land is much deeper as the environment is central to their mental and spiritual health and, as a result, physical health also. For this reason, colonization has had a major impact on…

Indigenous Credit Requirement: Good or Bad? Our University is on Treaty One territory, on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people and the homeland of the Metis Nation. Who Knew that? Most people have a very vague if any knowledge about Indigenous people which is why the Truth and Reconciliation Commission encourages including Indigenous studies as part of the curriculum. But there comes the question, ‘Is it fair to make it mandatory'. A number of Canadian post-secondary institutions…

Recently our class watched a movie called “The Secret Path”. The secret path is about a 12-year-old boy named Chanie Wenjack. He was born on January 19, 1954. Chanie is an Anishinaabe boy from Ontario. He grew up at Ogoki Post, on the Marten Falls Reserve, with his parents, sisters and two dogs. When Chanie turned 9 years old, he and his sisters were sent to the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School. This is where he was named “Charlie.” Wenjack died on October 22, 1966, near Reddit, ON at…

revenge on him, they put a tracker on Feng to track Bugz’s every move. The tracker then led them to a real-life location that was aligned to the Floraverse. This was a space where Bugz used a glitch to her advantage. Furthermore, the space had an Anishinaabe monument, which held power when reflected in the Floraverse. A group of Clan:Less members went to the location near the Rez. At the location, they destroyed the monument. Destroying the monument made Bugz upset as she lost everything she…

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”. In the quote by Martin Luther King Jr., he expresses how trying to stay divided was a foolish idea compared to learning to coexist with one another. The quote shares similar aspects to the overall theme of collection one, which is ‘finding common ground’. With the stories Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer, The Vietnam Wall by Alberto Rios, and Rituals of Memories by Kimberly M. Blaeser, they all shared a common theme. In…

Indigenous people have their own ways of seeing, being, doing, and knowing in this world. According to Richard Spearman, “Kendaaswin is the Anishinaabe way of developing and disseminating knowledge” (Spearman, 2016). Anishnabe people have theorized that the two aspects of reality are physicality and spirituality. In Anishnabe knowledge there are seven aspects: spirit memory, original instructions, acquired knowledge, traditional knowledge, revealed knowledge, mother earth knowledge, and…

people was planned to leave their own country but it didn’t succeed. Although today the Ojibwe people still lived in their original country, they suffered many painful unequally treatment by European settlers and their decedents (“Chippewa (Ojibway, Anishinaabe, Ojibwa)”,…