#ojibwe — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ojibwe, aggregated by home.social.
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New video up with a new giveaway announced. Check it out here:
https://youtu.be/ouV3Z6oQDjc?si=XOBRf6Abgm9SDNVJ#gamemastodon #gaming #cozygaming #ojibwe #grassrootsindigenousmultimedia #steam #steamgame #pointandclick
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Here's a one-shot class on birds in Anishinaabemowin. I took one before and loved it. Shows how bird names tell you whole stories about nature. https://www.naturalcuriosity.ca/birdsofanishinaabeaki #birds #language #linguistics #Indigedon #Indigenous #Anishinaabemowin #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe
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I've signed up for Anishinaabemowin classes next month. I look forward to brushing up on this language. It's been too long since I last studied it. https://outdoorlearning.com/event/anishinaabemowin-spring-2026/ #linguistics #Anishinaabemowin #Ojibwe #IndigenousLanguage
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Il mito della lince-drago che riecheggia nelle grotte del lago Superiore
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43202#creature #leggende #mostri #territorio #laghi #america #nordamerica #grandilaghi #lagosuperiore #ojibwe #tribù #nativi #indiani #storie #mitologia #pericolo #vendette #acqua #misteri #criptidi #esploratori #risorse #grotte #viaggi #dalmondo
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Il mito della lince-drago che riecheggia nelle grotte del lago Superiore
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43202#creature #leggende #mostri #territorio #laghi #america #nordamerica #grandilaghi #lagosuperiore #ojibwe #tribù #nativi #indiani #storie #mitologia #pericolo #vendette #acqua #misteri #criptidi #esploratori #risorse #grotte #viaggi #dalmondo
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by Jessica Milgroom
"Wild rice is a food of great historical, spiritual, and cultural importance for Ojibwe people. After colonization disrupted their traditional food system, however, they could no longer depend on stores of wild rice for food all year round. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, this traditional staple was appropriated by white entrepreneurs and marketed as a gourmet commodity. Native and non-Native people alike began to harvest rice to sell it for cash, threatening the health of the natural stands of the crop. This lucrative market paved the way for domestication of the plant, and farmers began cultivating it in paddies in the late 1960s. In the twenty-first century, many Ojibwe and other Native people are fighting to sustain the hand-harvested wild rice tradition and to protect wild rice beds."Ojibwe people arrived in present-day Minnesota in the 1600s after a long migration from the east coast of the United States that lasted many centuries. Together with their #Anishinaabe kin, the Potawatomi and Odawa, they followed a vision that told them to search for their homeland in a place 'where the food floats on water.' The Ojibwe recognized this as the wild rice they found growing around Lake Superior (Gichigami), and they settled on the sacred site of what is known today as Madeline Island (#Mooningwaanekaaning).
"In the Ojibwe language, wild rice (Zizania palustris) is called manoomin, which is related by analogy to a word (minomin) meaning 'good berry.'” It is a highly nutritious wild grain that is gathered from lakes and waterways by canoe in late August and early September, during the wild rice moon (manoominike giizis).
"Before contact with Europeans and as late as the early twentieth century, Ojibwe people depended on wild rice as a crucial part of their diet, together with berries, fish, meat, vegetables, and maple sugar. They moved their camps throughout the year, depending on the activities of seasonal food gathering. In autumn, families moved to a location close to a lake with a promising stand of wild rice and stayed there for the duration of the season.
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RESTORATION AND REGULATION
"As far back as the 1930s, the health of wild rice beds has been a serious concern. In 1939 Minnesota passed a law outlawing mechanized harvest and limiting how and when wild rice could be harvested. Since then, it has enacted other protective policies, including limiting the number of hours in the day during which it is permissible to rice and limiting the length of the canoe used for ricing. In the 1990s, wild rice was identified as an endangered food. The plant is sensitive to water levels altered by dams as well as road construction, pollution, poor harvesting practices, invasive species, genetic engineering (genetic contamination of the wild rice from the paddies), and climate change.
"In response to these threats, Ojibwe and other Native people organized. For example, in 1994, the Fond du Lac and Bois Forte bands developed a '#WildRiceRestorationPlan for the St. Louis River Watershed' designed to restore lost stands of the crop and manage its harvest. In the same decade, the company Native Harvest (part of the White Earth Land Recovery Project) began to sell hand-harvested wild rice, and multiple bands formed reservation wild-rice committees to manage harvests.
"In the 2020s, Ojibwe people continue to defend and protect this vital plant and the cultural, health, and spiritual importance that it holds. Individuals as well as tribes organize ricing camps to teach traditional practices of ricing, parching, and finishing. Others are actively fighting against the Enbridge #Line3 #OilPipeline replacement project that would cross wild rice habitat, or collaborating in a movement for Native food sovereignty."
https://www3.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/thing/wild-rice-and-ojibwe
#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSovereignty #WaterIsLife #FoodIsLife #NativeAmericanFoodSovereignty #FoodSovereignty #Foodsecurity #TraditionalFoods #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousFood
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NUKE WASTE DUMP: #Ojibwe Country once again targeted
May 1, 2025
"#BeyondNuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presented '#WaterIsLife, #NuclearWasteIsToxic' at the annual meeting of #EnvironmentNorth, in #ThunderBay, #Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of #LakeSuperior, April 23, 2025.
"Environment North is the lead local grassroots organization resisting the Canadian federal #NuclearWaste Management Organization’s (#NWMO, dominated by the nuclear industry, such as #OntarioPowerGeneration - #OPG) designation of the #IgnaceWabigoonLake #OjibwayFirstNation area as the national #RadioactiveWaste dump.
"A number of Ojibway #FirstNation Bands have also passed resolutions opposing the scheme, which would require long-distance, high-risk transportation of highly radioactive waste, from some two-dozen reactors to the east in #Canada, on the Great Lakes, Saint Lawrence, and Atlantic."
Source [includes more info and links]:
https://beyondnuclear.org/nuke-waste-dump-ojibwe-country-once-again-targeted/#EnvironmentRacism #NoDumpingWithoutConsent #NuclearWasteIsForever #DGR #NuclearPowerPlants #NuclearPowerNoThanks #IndigenousLand
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SON Says Legacy Issues Not Addressed, Sets Deadline For #Nuclear Moratorium
Claire McCormack
Jan 24, 2025#SaugeenOjibwayNation Chiefs' statement: “For many decades our land has been exploited for the production of #NuclearEnergy and storage of #RadioactiveWaste. This occurred without consultation or SON #consent. Today,our territory holds the vast majority of of #Canada’s #NuclearWaste and hosts one of the largest #nuclear facilities in the world. Even now, following the announcement by #NWMO that it will seek to build a deep geological repository (#DGR) for used fuel in the north, SON is expected to continue to host the used fuel for another 60 years without our consent and without redress while the DGR undergoes the assessment process licensing and permitting processes and construction.
"It is unacceptable that we continue to face inaction from #OPG and other members of the nuclear industry and government in addressing these injustices for the SON people. Their repeated failure to uphold commitments is an ongoing affront to SON’s rights. Our joint chiefs and council have taken a strong stance: We will not allow the exploitation of #Anishinaabekiing without a fair and just resolution.”
#FirstNations #Ojibwe #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanNews #NoDumpingWithoutConsent #RespectTheTreaties #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearDumping #NuclearInjustice #EnvironmentalRacism #OntarioPowerGeneration
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#Ojibwe sister-friend / #Indigenous comrade, Silena, doing some traditional #JingleDancing as part of remote healing ceremonies at our past landback camp (only Indigenous & #POCactivists at that resistance camp).
Learn more about Indigenous jingle dance & why it's important to native culture:
https://www.powwows.com/jingle-dress-dance/#JingleDancer #IndigenousCulture #JingleDress #JingleDance #FirstNations #NativeCulture #TurtleIsland #ClimateAction #Activists #NativeWomen #IndigenousWomen #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #IndigenousResistance #NativeDance #Dancing
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The premise of Pop Goes the Cryptid is that the view of doubtful animals (cryptids) has shifted from being a potentially scientific effort of zoological discovery called “cryptozoology” to that of being a media-driven, cultural and commercialized pop culture phenomenon. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t still efforts to find hidden mystery creatures but, more often, the cryptid has a more “folk” importance. An excellent example of a pop cryptid, and one that is currently exploding in popularity, is the Hodag, the mascot of Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Modernly depicted as a stocky, aggressive, green-black, feline-frog-dinosaur mash-up with red eyes, huge claws, a spiny-ridged back, and fearsome saber-teeth, the Hodag’s origin is obscure. Existing historically, and orally, as a tale of lumberjack folklore in the northwoods, the Hodag legend was reimagined, and solidified, by storyteller and jokester Gene Shepard in the closing decade of the 1800s. Shepard brought various pieces together from tall tales and Ojibwa legends, and, using wood, ox hide, and some accomplices, created a wondrous piece of fakelore.
The ancestor of the Hodag is considered to be Mishipeshu, the spirit creature of the native tribes of the Great Lakes area and northwoods. This “great lynx” was depicted as powerful, and dangerous, with a spiky back and tail, and it lived in the deepest parts of lakes and rivers. Mishipeshu is commonly referred to as the water panther. Some historians believe that the mishipeshu figure had a part to play in the Hodag heritage that Shepard (who spoke Ojibwa) used to bring the modern Hodag legend to life.
Mishipeshu pictograph on Agawa Rock at Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.In William Cox’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (1910) (see the 100th Anniversary hypertext edition), the Hodag’s appearance is ridiculous, giving us ample foundation to conclude this creature was a made-up story from the Wisconsin and Minnesota lumber camps. Cox notes that it was reportedly rhinoceros-like, hairless and intelligent, and that its body color may be plaid, like the lumberjack coat. Its nose has a spade-shaped horn that grows in an outward direction, blocking the creature’s line of vision so that it can only look up. It searches for porcupines in the trees. When it finds one, it digs around the host tree (with its shovel-nose) so that it falls over, dislodging the porcupine, which is then eaten by the Hodag. For the winter, the Hodag covers itself in pine pitch, rolls in the leaves, and stays warm.
Depiction of Hodag by Cox’s illustrator Coert DuBoisOther legends also indicate the Hodag was some 7 feet long and the reincarnated spirit of the study oxen that dragged logs from the forest (and thus “scientifically named Bovine spiritualis). Early tales never indicated it was a genuine zoological animal. However, it’s not inconceivable that its aggressive nature might have been influenced by the wolverine – which was killed off in those parts by around the 1870s.
From Philadelphia Inquirer, 1897While the tale was known prior to 1893, Eugene Shepard, from Rhinelander, crafted the mythical Hodag into a creature for his own greater purposes. He claimed to have found one in 1893 in the swamplands. He wrote for the local newspaper detailing his account and it was a hit.
In 1895, he created a model out of wood and real animal parts, staging a photo with local men playing along to depict its capture. This is the Hodag we know and love.
In 1896, he staged a side-show “display” of the creature for the Oneida fair and then traveled with it. There was no real animal in the display, but that was not the point – it was the great story that people wanted to see and hear. Check out these pieces to learn about Shepard’s creation and how he was like the P.T. Barnum of Rhinelander.
The Hodag: How Fakelore Became Real | Flyover Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zprRsGgLEo
Hodag: The Fearsome Creature Roaming American Wilderness – Real History channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpkMlzJxgfs
The Hodag now had a specific form and was known to be very dangerous and stinky, but it wasn’t only the creature that smelled funny. The newspapers spreading Shepard’s story sometimes led readers outside the Northwoods to believe that outrageous animal tales like this were true. Some people may have thought the Hodag was real. Shepard continued the ruse by leaving his motives unclear. He suggested that he had really found a Hodag but let it go and said it was a hoax in order to protect it.
What a great logo for the local high school team!But for Rhinelander, Wisconsin residents, it was no hoax. It is an important part of their heritage. They adopted the Hodag as the town mascot in 1918. Even though there was a dispute in the town about how much to embrace the “fakelore” Hodag, ultimately, the creature won the hearts of the town. As sometimes happens, the “fakelore” was widely accepted and morphed into real folklore. As UW-Madison folklore professor Lowell Brower noted (in the Flyover Culture video above), the Hodag created by Shepard was “folkloresque” – based on folklore and drew its power from that. Rhinelander “lovingly appropriated and commercialized” the legend. It appears everywhere in the town and draws visitors that would otherwise never look twice at the small town in Northern Wisconsin.
Today’s Hodag is based on Shepard’s tale, not the lumberjack tale memorialized in Cox’s 1910 volume. In some depictions, the Hodag now resembles the original Chupacabra (spiky back, red eyes, sharp teeth and claws, and a lizard tongue). The ambiguity of the hodag invites participation, and people are happy to act out the legend (called “ostention) by pretending it’s real and even hunting for the creature. The fact that the Hodag was a known hoax did not stop people from wanting to see it.
The latest claims to fame for the Hodag is its appearance in a 2012 Scooby-Doo episode, where “Gene Shepard” appears as a showman with a traveling cabinet of curiosities.
The Hodag also has an entry in the Harry Potter universe book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them where their horns were said to have magical properties to keep people awake for days and be unaffected by alcohol.
You can find lots of Hodags in the Hodag store in Rhinelander, where the owner Ben Brunell says the symbol brings the community together. He opened the store because people wanted Hodag souvenirs. A traveling Hodag exhibit appeared at the 2024 Mothman festival and at many other places across the US. And you can stay at the Hodag AirBnB which is also crawling with the creatures. So while the legend of the Hodag is flourishing, a real flesh and blood creature will, by its non-nature, be impossible to find.
Bibliography and More:
- The Rhinelander Visitors Page – https://explorerhinelander.com/
- The Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce – About the Hodag https://www.rhinelanderchamber.com/about-the-hodag/
- Wisconsin Historical Society – The Hodag: Learn the history of the Hodag, Rhinelander’s mystical menace https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS16353
- Pioneer Park Historical Complex https://rhinelanderpphc.com/hodags/
https://moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2024/10/10/hodag-wisconsins-homegrown-and-beloved-monster/
#cryptid #cryptids #Cryptozoology #Folklore #GeneShepard #Hodag #lumberjackTales #mascot #Mishipeshu #monster #Ojibwe #PopCryptid #Rhinelander #tallTales #Wisconsin
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Two of the #Indigenous ribbon skirt #instructors from #SNIWWOC event. #BIPOC womens' weekend cultural learning & sharing workshop.
They're #cousins.Waubshki-Migisi / Elaine Kwandibens (in blue)
Eliaine is from the #Anishiinabek community of #WhitesandFirstNation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Indigenous beader & textile crafts specialist.
https://www.loonsturgeon.ca/Kristina Netemegesic is #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe & also connected to the #Tsawwassen #FirstNation. She's a student support worker at SNIWWOC & moving to Victoria next year to start school at Camosun College. Kristina is an Indigenous #beader & sewer. She's been beading since age 6.
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5 #TwoSpirit Heroes Who Paved the Way for Today's #NativeAmerican #LGBTQ+ Community
by Samuel White Swan-Perkins
Nov 20, 2018"In the 1990s, Indian Country (as we called it) was a very different place for #NativeAmericans. Our rural communities were isolated, with communication limited to landlines and the mail.
"Cigarette and beer companies frequently sponsored our powwows, recycling was unheard of, and the entire Native scene portrayed itself as very straight. Not straight-laced, per se, but really #hetero.
"The term 'Two Spirit' for LGBTQ+ Native Americans didn’t exist yet, at least not outside #Ojibwe Territory. As for the concept—let’s just say that there were plenty of MCs making #winkte (gay) jokes at the powwows I attended in the early ’90s. Still, in spite of prejudice, it was common knowledge that in 'the old days,' most of our Nations accepted and honored #GenderFluidity.
"I recall one of my elders sharing about a man from home who was that way. 'I don’t like it,' I remember her telling me as she braided me up for one of our dances, 'but we love N. and so—not my way, mind you.' I don’t recall the rest of the conversation, but I understood her comments to mean that winkte was not OK.
"Fast forward a couple of decades, and wow.
"Not only did the Native-American population skyrocket in North America, but we’ve gone through a major shift in how Two Spirits are recognized and treated. Today, dozens of Two Spirit organizations exist across the United States and Canada (North Valley Two Spirits, represent!). We have several of our own powwows, 501c3s and models that help sustain and preserve the Two Spirit way of life.
"To get a sense of where we are today, let’s take a look back at some of the original Two-Spirit heroes who helped light the way."
#NativeAmericanHistory #LGBTQHistory #OshTisch #Wewha #HastiinKlah #Lozen #Dahteste #Colonialism
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From 2023: #OneidaNation's #environmental restoration project to receive funding in proposed [#Wisconsin] state budget
#Wildrice, or manoomin in #Ojibwe, is central to Ojibwe identity and is part of the culture’s migration story.
by Frank Vaisvilas
February 17, 2023ONEIDA – "Part of Gov. #TonyEvers’ proposed budget includes $875,000 to help fund the Oneida Nation’s environmental restoration project on the reservation.
"Over the past year, the tribe has restored about 3,000 acres of #wetlands, #grasslands, #prairies and #forests on the reservation.
"The governor’s budget includes an annual investment of $175,000 for five years for continuing the Oneida Nation’s #HabitatRestoration work and bird monitoring project just west of #GreenBay.
"'We know that #nature can provide for itself if allowed to. A years-long restoration of Oneida’s lands in Northeastern Wisconsin has led to improvements in water quality and the return of #wildlife,' said Oneida Chairman Tehassi Hill in a statement. 'We appreciate Governor Evers for supporting our work to restore and protect Wisconsin’s natural spaces.'
"The Oneida Nation also started a bird monitoring project on its restoration sites in coordination with the Northeastern Wisconsin #Audubon Society and UW-Green Bay’s Cofrin Center for Biodiversity to research how birds are responding to the tribe’s conservation efforts.
"'We’ve witnessed firsthand as state-threatened bird species, like the #HenslowsSparrow, have returned to restored Oneida Nation lands, an incredible testament to the importance of this restoration work,' said Erin Giese, president of the Northeastern Wisconsin Audubon Society, in a statement.
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"Evers’ budget proposal also includes a $200,000 investment in restoring and protecting natural wild rice areas in Wisconsin.
"Experts say wild rice is an essential food source for many of the #MigratorBirds in the area, including many species of #ducks, #pheasants, #owls, #cranes, #geese and #songbirds.
"The plants also help to improve the #environment.
"'Emergent plants, including wild rice, help promote #water quality through the filtering and storage of nutrients and slow down wave action in the #CoastalWetlands of Green Bay,' said Dr. Amy Carrozzino-Lyon, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay restoration project manager in the natural and applied sciences department. 'A diversity of native wetland plants helps the community function at its best.'"
#RestoreNature #WaterIsLife #RestoreTheWetlands
#SaveTheMarshes
#SaveNature #NatureBasedSolutions
#IndigenousWisdom
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If I go by that silly rule where you don’t eat anything you can’t pronounce, I can’t make blueberry pie, because I’ve never memorized how to say it in Anishinaabemowin: Miina-baashkiminasigani-biitoosijigani-bakwezhigan #Indigedon #Anishinaabemowin #Ojibwe #BlueberryPie
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The Dish With One Spoon wampum belt is a very ancient treaty and pre-dates the arrival of Europeans on Turtle Island
#wampum #treaties #Indigenous #Hodinohshoni #Haudenosaunee #Anishinaabe #Ojibwe #sharing
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#Biskane — which is the Anishinaabe word used to describe the act of lighting a fire — has been developed by three #Ontario creators who were inspired to bring exposure to other #Indigenousartists and entrepreneurs. It's #Indigenous-owned-run-inspired, authentic #Indigenousart
FounderCEO Chad Solomon, a member of the #Anishinaabe community of #HenveyInlet #FirstNation, Ont.is an #author, #storyteller, #puppeteer & #graphicnovelist.
#Ojibwe
https://www.biskane.com/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/biskane-indigenous-online-shopping-platform-1.6667053
