Topic:Anishinabe

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Anishinabe Department

Welcome to the Anishinabe department of the North American division of the School of Ethnology!

Contents 1 About the Anishinabe people 1.1 References 2 About our department 2.1 Bulletin board 2.2 Department staff 2.3 To do 3 Department resources

[edit] About the Anishinabe people

The Anishinabe tribe, also known as the Ojibwa, Ojibway or Chippewa (though the latter they intensely dislike), is the third-largest tribe in North America, surpassed only by the Cherokee and the Navajo. The name Anishinabe is often translated as "first people".^[1] At one time the tribe occupied a territory spanning from east of Lake Huron to the mountains of Montana in the west. A large portion of the tribe migrated to the state of Minnesota in the mid-seventeenth century, eventually pushing the Dakota tribe to the south and west of the state and claiming the northeast for their own.^[2]

Today, the Anishinabe populations are concentrated in the reservations of Minnesota and Wisconsin (the Minnesota Chippewa and Lake Superior tribes, respectively), though there are also reservations in Montana, Michigan and the Dakotas. Canada recognizes over one hundred full or part Anishinabe settlements, located in Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan.^[3]

For more information, please see these Wikipedia articles:

• w:en:Ojibwa "Ojibwa"
• w:en:Anishinaabe "Anishinaabe"

[edit] References

1. ↑ http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mncultures/anishinabe.html "Natives Peoples of Minnesota: Anishinabe"
2. ↑ http://www.mnchippewatribe.org/a_brief_history.htm "A Brief History of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe"
3. ↑ A Native American Encyclopedia by Barry Pritzker

[edit] About our department

Welcome to the Anishinabe department! This is a forum for creating learning resources pertaining to the tribe's culture and history. Resources are organized alphabetically. See also our learning stream for coordination of learning projects and learners or our bookshelf for an organization of other non-Wikiversity resources on the Anishinabe. Please ensure the relevance and quality of your resources so that our department can be a valuable resource for learners.

[edit] Bulletin board

• 27 May 2009 - department founded!
• November 15 2009 - course list reformatting, hopefully it's more user-friendly this way and easy to maintain! Check it out!

[edit] Department staff

Anybody can assist our department's maintenance and resource crews anonymously. However, if you intend to be a frequent contributor to our department, please list your name below to help our department grow!

• Maintenance taskforce: categories, templates, etc.
  • Trinity507
  • your name here!
• Resource taskforce: checking relevance, quality and ease of use
  • Trinity507
  • your name here!

[edit] To do

Anybody can help out with the tasks on this list:

• We are currently in need of course creators/teachers, for a full listing of all courses see here. Courses currently in red font need creators! Jump right in and be bold!

[edit] Department resources

• Courses