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    Ojibwe Migration Essay

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    Ojibwe Origins and Migration to Minnesota A few thousand years ago, there were no people who called themselves the Ojibwe. Their ancestors actually lived throughout the northeastern part of North America and along the Atlantic Coast. Now, there are twenty-seven different tribes who trace their origins back to that particular group. They all share a similar language and culture, but each has their own significant differences. The Ojibwe group became a distinct subgroup around fifteen hundred years ago. At that time they consisted of many independent villages who shared language and culture. (Treuer, 2010, p. 5) An important aspect of the Ojibwe is their clan system. Clans were passed on through the father and determined each person's place…

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    Ojibwe Tribe

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    of Ojibwe to Minnesota The Ojibwe tribe’s ancestors originated about three to four thousand years ago on the Atlantic coast. From the Ojibwe ancestors’, or the mother group, twenty-seven different Indian tribes were born, including the Ojibwe. All of these subtribes share common political and economical history, as well as share similarities in their languages. The emergence of the Ojibwe tribe as a subgroup is thought to have developed about fifteen hundred years ago. The Ojibwe people…

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    Ojibwe Influence

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    It’s believed that he Ojibwe made first contact with Europeans in 1615 when Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer arrived at Lake Huron, where some Ojibwe lived. In 1622, one of Champlain's people, made contact with Ojibwe groups farther west while the French were exploring Lake Superior (Ojibwe History 2014). In 1641, French Jesuits begin to explore the rapids of the St. Mary's River establishing a Christian mission there by 1667. Like other Indian groups, the Ojibwe were forced farther out…

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    Essay On Ojibwe Culture

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    For the Ojibwe, their lives were lived very differently from people in Minnesota today. Primary housing for the Ojibwe people were dome shaped, bark covered wigwams. The structure of these wigwams were the most practical to make and to keep the Ojibwe people warm in the harsh Minnesota winters. Other types of lodges were also built but the Ojibwe and they were used mainly for special ceremonies and harvest, and not for living. Age was highly respected within the Ojibwe culture and everyday life.…

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    Gender Roles In Ojibwe

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    Gender Roles in the Ojibwe Society Love Medicine is a multi-layered story taking place over the course of fifty years. These characters, both reflect traditional as well as changing gender roles in Ojibwe society. The main characters in the story seem to be trying to balance the old role with changing role. Some succeed while others do not. This paper will address the primary characters and their attempts at maintaining traditional gender roles as poverty, drug and alcohol abuse and infidelity…

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    The Ojibwe culture ate a medicinal plant known as Meadow Anemone “The Ojibwe ate the root to clear the throat for singing, for lumbar pain, and to treat wounds and sores (Cole 25)”. Another plant that is well known today and used to heal severe wounds by drinking it as a tea is Black Cohosh. For example, it was used in healing for rattlesnake bites, gynecological problem and childbirth. “Native Americans used an infusion made from St. John’s Wort for fevers and dysentery (Cole 28)”. White Pine…

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    Gender Roles In Ojibwe

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    is something that is highly respected in the Ojibwe tribe so much so that there was a ceremony for every stage of life from birth to death, with great emphasis placed on puberty and rituals and rights of passage that included fasting and vision quests for boys and sequestered instruction for girls (Treuer, 2010, p. 9). Gender roles also played a large part in this tribe men engaged in warfare, hunted, fished, and could have multiple wives. Women had quite a different life than men. Women would…

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    Have you ever thought about the difference between Native American tribes? I am going to discuss the different ways of how the Dakota and Ojibwe Indians lived. Both Dakota and Ojibwe had specific tasks for men’s and women’s some of these tasks were the same and somewhere different. They also shared and defined food and dwelling. In this essay I am going to compare and contrast the Dakota and Ojibwe Indians.The Dakota people are a Native American tribe and First Native band governments in North…

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    Ojibwe Cultural Analysis

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    generated a lot of money, and they believed the federal government gives allowances to all native people. In reality, the casinos are mismanaged and it produces no revenue for the Spokane people. Linden Lark believed that if he reviewed enough about Indian law that he would not get caught for the rape of Geraldine Coutts and murder of Mayla Wolfskin. White people had pre-conceived notions of Indian tribes in general, but failed to realize the diverse groups that inhabit the Native American…

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    Treaty making between the United States and the Native American tribes were very common from the time the first settlers came to the land, for tribes all over the United States. But these treaties all have different outcomes, ways of negotiation and effects in the long term. The Lakota and Ojibwe tribes had very different outcomes of these treaties including hunting rights and forced assimilation. These outcomes were different partly because of the negation processes of the two treaties.…

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