Life in An Anishinabe Camp

Boozhoo ! (greetings)

Noah has been studying more about the Ojibwa Indians, He read about how the Indians moved theirs camp from season to season. In the summer they lived in large groups of extended families near the lakes for fishing and hunting, during the winter the lived in smaller camps with closer family members.

The homes they built were called wigwams. The wigwams were easily moved, the men would use sapling trees for the frames and the women would cover the wigwams with birch bark and animal hides.

Noah's Anishinabe Camp diorama

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The Ojibwa call themselves the Anishinabeg (also spelled Anishinaabeg, or if singular, Anishinabe) for "first" or "original people." In the eighteenth century the French called the Ojibwa living near the eastern shore of Lake Superior Salteaux or Salteurs, "People of the Falls." These terms now used only in Canada. The Anishinabe acquired the names Ojibwa and Chippewa from French traders. The English preferred to use Chippewa or Chippeway, names typically employed on the treaties with the British government and later with the U.S. government.

This is the book we are working with: Life in an Anishinabe Camp

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In the fall gathering season wild rice became ripe. People moved from their summer camps to marshy areas where the rice grew. They worked together to gather, dry and store as much rice as they could before moving to their winter camps.