Spotlight on Native Americans: Ojibwe by Torren Ramsey, PowerKids Press, Rosen Publishing Group Inc., New York, 2016.
The Ojibwe people are on of the more numerous Native American tribes. They extended from the Northern Great Plains in Canada to the southeastern Great Lakes in the United States. Also known as Chipewa. Their original name meaning the people, Anishinaabeg.
Initial contact with Europeans was with French Trappers. Through treaty more and more of their land was taken for use by White populations. Thee treaties guaranteed the right of the Ojibwe to hunt on their native lands. This right eroded but over time courts have restored this right.
The Ojibwe would move with the seasons. They would hunt and fish during the summer, and harvest maple for syrup in the spring. Winter was a time of preparing furs for trading. Women would garden, squash, corn and beans as well as gather.
Louise Erdrich is Ojibwe. She writes books. Rebecca Belmore is a visual artist. Ron Noganosh is a painter
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