What is a Tribe?
They share a common language, belong to the same language family, share the same culture, traditions and belief system.
What is a clan? describe?
A clan establishes social order, and is named after animals found in nature, each animal has a trait or characteristic and children were encouraged to follow that trait. Red Lake has 7 clans on their flag but have many more clans within their band.
Name one or all three tribes that belong to the Three Fires?
Ojibwe, Ottawa, Potawatomi
The Ottawa tribe translates to?
The Traders or barters, They developed an extensive trade system that was Pre-European. Rivers were the highways back then and Trading depots were usually were rivers crossed one another.
The Potawatomi name translates to?
The Fire Keepers, They kept the Sacred Fire burning. The tribe ended up in what is now the State of Michigan.
Ojibwe, translates to?
The Recorders and Keepers of the Faith. Ojibwe have kept many records on Birchbark scrolls and on rocks in the form of petroglyphs.
According to the Ojibwe Migration story what led The Three Fires West?
The Megis Shell
According to the prophesy, how far West would the Three fires have to travel?
Till they found food that grows on the water.
What was the food that grows on the water that The Three Fires were in search of?
Manoomin - Wild Rice
How many stopping places were there in the westward migration of The Three Fires?
7
Describe one of the stopping places of the Three Fires?
- Was a turtle shaped Island, South of Montreal and on the Ottawa River. There was a dream or vision of a river that flowed in the direction where the sun sets, the Ottawa River is the only place where the river runs west.
- The place of Animikii waa boo, The place of Thunder Water, describes Niagra Falls.
- Detroit - A place where two great bodies of water are connected by a thin, narrow river, this river is described as a “Deep and fast ribbon of water that slices through the land like a knife.” Several life’s were lost because the current was very strong.
- Manitoulin Island - was considered the capital of the Ojibwe Nation, It was here that the Ojibwe spent the most time. It was an Ideal place for Trading and was a main depot for theOjibwe.
- Saulte Ste. Marie - Was another major trading center it was here where the Ojibwe split into two groups, one group went North around Lake Superior and the other group went South around the Lake, Those that went North settled in Northern Minnesota, Red Lakers.
- Duluth Minnesota settling near Spirit Mountain, the two groups met up here. Those that traveled north around the lake traveled further into MN and settled in those areas.
- Madeline Island - was the 7th and final resting place of the Megis shell.
The Three Fires met up with a Confederacy of Tribes along their Migration Route, What was the name of this Confederacy?
The Iroquois Confederacy
Why was the Iroquois Confederacy formed?
To bring peace to warring tribes.
How many tribes made up the Iroquois Confederacy?
5
Please list their tribal names of the Iroquois Confederacy?
The Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida
List two things that made Ojibwe warriors Great in battle
The trade gun and the Birchbark canoe
