Ojibwe

Louise Erdrich’s novel, Love Medicine is a fusion of Catholicism and Ojibwe beliefs. Both played a central role in the life of the author. The status of Catholicism is apparent, nevertheless, she possesses first-hand knowledge of Ojibwe culture as a recognized member of the tribe. As a product of an interracial partnership, Erdrich embraces and respects both cultures, accordingly, this can also be said about many of the main characters. Having done some research on the author’s background, I…

The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights is Larry Nesper, an assistant professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, as an understudy for Raymond Fogelson, a well-renown American Indian ethnographers. Nesper specializes in the Ojibwe or Chippewa tribes of Northern Wisconsin. As a result, the whole scope of his career is based on the social injustices and struggles that the Ojibwe face, creating this very in…

The population of the Ojibwe tribe is large, and they have wide lands with some parts belonging to United States and Canada. Today there are still lot’s Ojibwe Indians lived in their original territories. After Europeans came, the Ojibwe people got destroyed by them. Americans and Canadians plundered the Ojibwe tribe land rudely and unequally. The Ojibwe people was planned to leave their own country but it didn’t succeed. Although today the Ojibwe people still lived in their original…

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, Brenda Child works through letters written by Ojibwe students and parents, a perfect primary source, to best observe the perspectives of Native American families who endured the harsh conditions of boarding schools. Focusing on the Flandreau School in South Dakota and the Lawrence, Kansas Haskell Institute where most of the Ojibwe attended, Child was able to narrow her attention to best dissect and understand the more inner viewpoints…

historical novel is able to accomplish that a conventional text of the same subject could not. Chickadee is the continuation of a story and fourth book in a series by Erdrich that began with the novel The Birchbark House that introduced a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl named Omakayas. Chickadee takes place in mid-1800 Minnesota and picks up the story with Omakayas eight-year-old twin boys, the quiet Chickadee and the mischievous Makoons. These twins are always together and every member of their…

passed down from generation to generation. It could be something you carry on everyday or a certain day of the year. In the book, Night Flying Woman, by Ignatia Broker, the idea of traditions is portrayed many times. The book Broker wrote was about an Ojibwe tribe and traditions. Oona, the main character tells her story about the many traditions and her lifestyle. She told about many traditions such as farming, death and birth rituals, and much more. One quote that shows one of the traditions is…

The 7 grandfather teachings are important to Ojibwe culture, and are expressed time and time again in Richard Wagmese’s Medicine Walk. Eldon Starlight showed much honesty and bravery by telling his son Franklin Starlight his entire life story, including many wrongdoings of his own. The old man showed much wisdom by raising Franklin in the ways of indigenous people, even though he wasn’t one himself. These Ojibwe teachings were guidelines for these people on how to live a fruitful life, and are…

It is common for children to experience irrational fears. Whether the fear is of the boogieman, monsters, aliens, vampires, or being sucked down the drain, most every child, across the globe, has experienced some type of fear at one point or another. For me, as a child, my fears seemed to come to me at night in the form of nightmares. It could be said that I was a paranoid child. For majority of my childhood, I was convinced that every person outside of my family was trying to kidnap me. Where…

Ojibwes were originally not allowed to practice their religion until 1978. They would practice their religion and hold their ceremonies secretly in the round house if there were no priests or Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendents presents. When they were present, the Ojibwes would hide their ceremonial belongings like eagle feathers and pull out their Ecclesiastes verses. They also withstood…

bag was lined with striped cotton One notable thing is that the bandolier bags were made differently according to various tribes in which each tribe was able to make it according to their style. These bags are made differently from the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Menominee, Winnebago, Sauk and Creek tribes. (Bey, 2004) The bags consisted of an “X” motif which appears on the veins in the leaves. The bags also consist of a woven panel sewed onto the bag and woven tabs beneath the bag. However the…