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Significance of Anishinaabe Literature...Significance of Anishinaabe Literature
“It was Grandmother of the Sea who brought mankind in a sack from beneath the waves”1
How does a superior long-lasting tale take form, and stay famous for generations? There can be various contributing factors; such as, presence of a suspenseful plot, passionate account of a love story, engaging description of a setting, interesting portrayal of one’s forefathers, an intense struggle between the good and the evil, or the eventual triumph of the main protagonist. No matter what the content is, any piece of literature can only survive the test of time, and gradually transforms into a legend, if it fulfills the criteria of relevancy and righteousness....
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Spiritual Values in Anishinaabe Literature... The Number 15 December Spiritual Values in Anishinaabe Literature Anishinaabe literature is a general term applied to oral and written works of the culture of Native American Indians living within the Great Lakes Area. Also spelled Anishininabeg, Anishinaabeg or Anishinabe, Anishinaabe means “first or original people” and is used by the Ojibwa (also known as Chippewa) to speak of themselves, their language and culture. The Ojibwa are “a woodland people of northeastern North America” who settled around the Great Lakes region (Roy, “The Ojibwa”). Despite the fact there were two more groups of Anishinaabe – the Potawatomi and the Ottawa – the Ojibwa is often used to speak about Anishiniaabe, since it is the third largest group among... the...
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Anishinaabe Literature and Culture...? Anishinaabe Literature and Culture Anishinaabe Literature and Culture The people of Anishinaabe live in over 220 separate nations and provinces surrounding the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States. Twelve of these nations are located in Michigan and there are over 58,000 American Indians in Michigan according to US Census. These native Indians form the Anishinaabe tribe of America. Some American universities teach Anishinaabemowin, the language spoken by the people of this tribe. These people were divided into three communities: Odawa, Ojibwe, and Bodewatomi speaking different dialects of the Anishinaabemowin. The Indians still...
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Anishinaabe Tribe... Fishing Rights Controversy People living near natural resources are expected to exploit them for their economic and social welfare. In some instances, people living around cross-border resources find themselves in conflicts about the management and exploitation of such resources. For this reason, the need for having agreements and treaties signed for protection of these resources is an important step towards their management and conservation.
In many countries, cross-border conflicts have often resulted in the death of people, as well as destruction of resources meant for use and exploitation. In addition, it fuels feelings of animosity and hatred among people that are to co-exist mutually, helping each other in times of need... Fishing...
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Anishinaabe Social Movement...Anishinaabe social issues and social movements Introduction Anishinaabe from traditional point of view refers to “good people” or "the good humans", which translate to people who are on the right path or course that were given to by the Gichi-Manidoo (Creator or Great Spirit). This is the names given to four ethnic groups as identified by outsiders or by the group itself and based on geographical location. The four ethnic groups are Ojibwa, Algonquin, and Odawa in Ontario, North America (Pitawanakwat, 2009). The Anishinaabe (Anishinaabeg in plural) is the exonyms and endonyms often used by the four groups of North America but their name vary from region to region....
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Anishinaabe Change Maker...Anishinaabe Change Maker My Change Maker My Anishinaabe change maker is Maria Campbell. As a young man, Campbell qualifies to be my favorite and most admirable change maker who should be my role model. Unlike the rest of the people, she was a far-sighted personality who could see a lot of things that if properly utilized, would positively transform the lives of the people in her society. Campbell is a woman who was born in Athlone, Edmonton in April, 1940. After leading a simple life as an ordinary Canadian, Campbell struggled to eventually become an outstanding playwright, film maker, broadcaster and a distinguished elder.
As an aboriginal, Campbell was born at a time when the native populations were still struggling to live... Change Maker ...
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Anishinaabe change maker...Anishinaabe Change Maker-Winona LaDuke In layman terms, Anishinaabe de s the composition of Odawa, Ojibwa as well as Algonquin nations often perceived as ‘smaller’ in comparison with other cultures (Tyson and KaaVonia 55). Despite being lowery perceived, on a traditional viewpoint Anishinaabe were good people with a meaning and a moral obligation. This paper reviews the contribution of Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwa, who as an author, economist and an environmentalist endeavored to bring a change in preservation of tribal lands as well as seeing sustainable development as a practice was observed. Much has been borrowed from her scholarly work as well as joint writing that reflect on her early...
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Anishinaabe social movements... Anishinabe Social Movements Introduction Anishinabe is the native people of Canada and America. Anishinabe otherwise commonly known as the Ojibwa resided in the Northern of the United States and south of Canada. They majorly occupied areas in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Ontario. According the people, Anishinabe means “human being”. There are those who use Ojibwa as their native language though the majority use English as their second language. Some of them are also known to speak the Algonquian language as they have close relations with Ottawa and Potawatomi Indians.
Brief History of the Anishinabe
Efforts by the Canadian government to resettle the Anishinabe people so as to limit them to reservations... Anishinabe...
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Anishinaabe People...Clan system Anishinaabe people (Canada)
Just like majority of the Algonquian speaking people in the North America, the Anishinaabe people base their kinship systems on totems or patrilineal clans. I was surprised to learn that this meant that if a child was born, he was born in the clan of its father. Children that were born with English or French fathers were regarded as outsiders to the clan and the Anishinaabe community unless they were adopted by an Anishinaabe father. They were at times refereed to as ‘white’ due to their fathers regardless of their mothers being from the Anishinaabe community as the had no representative position in the...
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