Chi Megwich , love this as a 60s scoop , being told my father was fish clan I was granted to find travelling with my children learning what was stolen as meeting my birth mother that was not a place for learning or a safe place for children so my teachings came when they were 2 & 7 so for many years we travelled my oldest even did her coming of age. We all got our names my kids got there,s 1st. I had to stop about 18 yrs ago when our 110 yr old teacher passed & the other died a few months later. I truly miss but have great memories of these times. Sadly I lost all the language I learned having no one to talk to.
I’m not Ojibwe or even native/indigenous but came across your video looking to learn more about pre European Anishinaabe culture. Correct me if I’m wrong but one of the things I found cool about the Crane and Loon clans was that one focused on internal governance of the people and the other focused more on governing when it came to issues and relations outside of the their community. How the clan system worked within your people’s culture is very beautiful and harmonious. Thank you for sharing this info and your heritage with us outsiders.
I love seeing where we all hail from in the comments. Does my heart good to see my people all over the northern Midwest. Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa County Ojibwe tribe.
Ojibwe person here. I grew up thinking I was Bear clan, but I just found out that I'm actually Eagle. The family name means something to the effect of, "The whisper of an eagle's wings on the wind." Feeling very blessed.
Even though that spirit is inmany of our people alot comes from our abuses we don`t share as well as natives have been drinking a bit over 200 years ago we also have smaller pancrious wich doesn`t break down the sugar & alcohol
@@sid7088 I feel this pain.. what’s happened to me I find drinking as a way to dull pain.. but I’m also strong enough to not let it consume my life and me unlike my father before me.. There’s days you can be sad but there’s much more where you have to be strong.. especially if you have children in this world.
I’m Mescalero Apache I too am looking to have my roots restored. Glad you found your clan ✊🏽 I don’t know if my people even have that but I’d love to find out.
My beautiful late grandmother was Anishinaabe (75% by blood) Basswood Lake area. My mother is enrolled Ojibwe too. Even though I grew up knowing my heritage, she was a genealogist and still wasn't sure if we are Bear clan or Eagle clan. My siblings and I grew up far away from most of our kin and so it's not so easy to find out the clan it seems. But we have 3/16 BQ only and MCT enrollment require 4/16. So I've struggled half my life to know where I belong and whether I can "count" myself as Indigenous, as Ojibwe or not. It hurts my heart not to know. Some day I will go to my family on the rez and ask them if they think I fit in there. Until then, who knows? Migwetch, thank you for the lovely videos.
Aanii cousin, I'm from Neeyaashingnigming, Ontario and I'm happy to finally follow a fellow Ojibwe. I got myself the bear clan and I'll always provide and protect them because that's the bear clans way
I'm not considered ojibwe enough to be recognized so I'll just say my great grandma is ojibwe but none of us after that are technically Anishinaabe. My great grandma is waabizheshi dodem. I still learn the language and culture though despite not being Anishinaabe by blood quantum.
Blood quantums blah blah blah. Fairely certain my family was anishinaabe born 1824 that was moved from Erie Huron City area just on the bounds of the United States side on the edge of the land around lake Erie. to Missouri and then again to Cherokee land in Oklahoma. My grandmother still carried the last name that was given to us by the white people and we are just supposed to sit here and be white. It's better to learn where you come from.
Aaniin. Just sharing my perspective... I feel my indigenous Ojibwe ancestry is the most important even though I only have one great grandmother with this connection - it’s more important than my Ukrainian and polish sides that are equal to my Ojibwe. It’s a missing piece that I only recently connected. I’ve been listening to Braiding Sweetgrass and the cultural stories have connected my personally derived viewpoints. it closes that hole where I didn’t understand why perceived the world so differently from other (including colleagues in my field). Especially environmentally and taking care with the place we live. Embrace your heritage - maybe to the extent it resonates with you. I look very much Caucasian but finding out specifically the Ojibwe heritage has finally clicked like a missing puzzle piece. I am learning. And am thankful even for this video to know the original clans. It’s important to know and for as many of us to learn as much as we can so it is not lost.
@@LuluWCLifestyle I feel like of youre just a naturally grounded person. Because of "modernization" being pushed back by indigenous communities (I'm from other tribes my blood quantum is sufficient in) we see natives as being grounded and connect to it... We forget that all cultures and people were like that but colonization and modernization took that from them. I'm sure if you learned about polish traditions and discovered the tribes or the ukraine and what they were before the modern colonization you'd feel just as equal to them as you do to anishinaabe. You'll rarely find a traditional culture pre modernized colonization that isn't what you described Anishinaabe as being.
@@alexandrahenderson4368 Aaniin! ;) thank u for replying! maybe I am naturally meant to be grounded (which I am now). It took a lot of discomfort for me to shift towards grounding and healing. But regarding my steadfast connection to my indigenous roots in particular is likely b/c of not having any tangible knowledge of it and my ancestry was purposefully concealed... it’s hard to explain. That left its impression on me. I visited my Ukrainian and Polish great grandparents throughout my life. My Ojibwe gg was concealed and purposely erased (grrrr). It’s a strange vacant piece that should be there. But at least having a People that aligns (and knowing it now)... it’s like you get a gift and it’s the rarest gift... you hold it precious.
I am ojibwe. And I am a pieces. I am interested to find out more. My sisters and I have a different kind of situation, and we are trying to bring our culture into our lives more, but it would sure be helpful to have some ppl to collaborate with!
Mermaid Parker ... I was wondering if you know anyone who knows the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, currently: Richard A Baker, tells Mr President and Justin Castro what to do? My reason is founded upon the last 8 paragraphs of the Royal Proclamation of October 7th., 1763. Mi'igwich
Much Love and chi megwich as a 60`s scoop who lived HELL by horrable people ,I found my teachings 23 years ago traveling around and cerimonies learning from my ojbway 110 year old from Alberta his apprentace an ojbway who was from Manitolin, I followd my father who was fish so I claim that sturgen and I herd that you can`t marry or eat yur clan I love hearing your version, Much Love & many blessings CHI MEGWICH, Wingushjeepcunnn,I don`t know how to spell my indian name but this is how it`sounds, I named both my chidren native names and there indian names they sweat for they werefallow both almost exactly what I named them but in ojibway as my daughter was Tashina Naomi her name is shitow qwesents know qway, tashina meanning that white buffallow layng over mother earth, My son was named Tecumseh Raven his name is good sounding bird I can`t rmember it right know but as a 60`s scoop raised hearing every horrable lie as well as they kept me away from any other native,My mother called at 17 and I started learning lies as well as the driking was insaine so when cerimonies came at 30 my chidren being 2 & 7 we started travelling all over turtle island for a decade bringing it back to ourpeople as we did cerimonies all over north america Great teachings love your channel,Sorry I can`t spell only having around gr,4/5. noone cared it was aweful along with the abuse & horror show as a child mine lived a great time travelling all over with teachingsgoingbac over 400 years as he was raised by his grandfatheralso a cerimonie maker & teacher, I TOUGHT like you 22 years ago in our head start brnging a prayer with smudge as well as the teachings your speaking on, So Very Verry happy to find you, Chi megwich
I am Ojibwe, which is a nation from the eastern woodlands. Our territory crosses today’s borders on Turtle Island. So many of us have lost our lineage. There were once 500 nations on turtle island, before the settlers arrived. Those Nations have more in common than u might think. So I encourage u to learn from as many First Nations as u can. U may not have a direct link to one Nation but u will feel the connection to the teachings from all. We all have blood memory and your spirit will know when it hears ur ancestors teachings.
@@whitebuffalocircles-athome2247 I totally agree! If you see my first comment, I didn’t know anything about my great grandmothers ancestry and have slowly put some pieces together. We have Anishinaabe Ojibwe decent and after reading Braiding Sweetgrass the cultural stories resonate. My soul has been waiting for this piece to click together. My blood remembers! My one slight hesitation is that I look completely Caucasian when my gg is Ojibwe. (I don’t feel Ojibwe enough to be Ojibwe. But I fully embrace this as the most important part of me!!) but I am going to do my part by learning the culture and even learning some language. I hope others can empathize that even with someone like me, we can still feel lost and disconnected... ❤️ I love the meaning of aaniin (I see your light). Such eloquent language.
So, I am curious. You said your mother looked up which clan you were apart of. Is there a way to find out what your families clan was? My great grandfather was Ojibway from St. Ignace, Mackinaw, Michigan.
Anishinaabeg follow the father's clan. But if you can't find yours you can start with Waabzheshii (Marten) clan because they adopt those who need a clan. Then you can participate in a ceremony to discover if you belong to another clan.
miigwech! I am told my great grandmother was makwa, but because my grandfather was white, my dad is Eagle clan... My question is which clan do the children take? So if the mother was bear and the father was martin, what qould the childen identify as? would they take thir father's clan or their mother's clan? miigwech!
I'm of the turtle mountain band of chippewa Indians and have been my whole life same as my father and grandfather. If I'm being honest my dad told me my name means young man in ojibwe (the name on the account). Unfortunately he passed in 06 and he only spoke our language when he was drunk and despite my best efforts of getting him to teach me I know literally nothing of my peoples language (he said whites would mock me). As far as I know my legal and native name is just gibberish.
Chi Megwich , love this as a 60s scoop , being told my father was fish clan I was granted to find travelling with my children learning what was stolen as meeting my birth mother that was not a place for learning or a safe place for children so my teachings came when they were 2 & 7 so for many years we travelled my oldest even did her coming of age. We all got our names my kids got there,s 1st. I had to stop about 18 yrs ago when our 110 yr old teacher passed & the other died a few months later. I truly miss but have great memories of these times. Sadly I lost all the language I learned having no one to talk to.
Love that we feel as if we are sitting as students with your daughter, learning this together. Really great content! Thank you for these teachings!
I’m not Ojibwe or even native/indigenous but came across your video looking to learn more about pre European Anishinaabe culture. Correct me if I’m wrong but one of the things I found cool about the Crane and Loon clans was that one focused on internal governance of the people and the other focused more on governing when it came to issues and relations outside of the their community. How the clan system worked within your people’s culture is very beautiful and harmonious. Thank you for sharing this info and your heritage with us outsiders.
Martin Dodem! Miigwetch for sharing this!!
My wife is Ojibwe and our soon-to-be first child will learn about his heritage on both sides. Thanks for this content.
I enjoyed listening to your teaching. Migwetch!
I love seeing where we all hail from in the comments. Does my heart good to see my people all over the northern Midwest. Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa County Ojibwe tribe.
Fellow Sault Tribe member from St. Ignace✌️ Turtle Clan 🐢
Thank you for sharing this teaching. 🦅
I just love this video.
Thank you for your teachings ❤️
This is great. You're a wonderful teacher. Miigwetch
Ojibwe person here. I grew up thinking I was Bear clan, but I just found out that I'm actually Eagle. The family name means something to the effect of, "The whisper of an eagle's wings on the wind." Feeling very blessed.
Same.
Boozhoo!! Proud to be Ottertail clan Pillager Band White Earth! Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Great teacher also a marvelous presentation..
Keep them coming .
All the best Kg
What a cool dad. Man my dads a drunk & still is.
Bear clan 👌🏽
Even though that spirit is inmany of our people alot comes from our abuses we don`t share as well as natives have been drinking a bit over 200 years ago we also have smaller pancrious wich doesn`t break down the sugar & alcohol
Inter-generational trauma lead to many of our people turning to alcohol to dull the pain. Have respect for him, only he knows what he's been through.
@@sid7088 I feel this pain.. what’s happened to me I find drinking as a way to dull pain.. but I’m also strong enough to not let it consume my life and me unlike my father before me..
There’s days you can be sad but there’s much more where you have to be strong.. especially if you have children in this world.
I’m Mescalero Apache I too am looking to have my roots restored. Glad you found your clan ✊🏽
I don’t know if my people even have that but I’d love to find out.
Love the channel. Chi Miigwetch
My beautiful late grandmother was Anishinaabe (75% by blood) Basswood Lake area. My mother is enrolled Ojibwe too. Even though I grew up knowing my heritage, she was a genealogist and still wasn't sure if we are Bear clan or Eagle clan. My siblings and I grew up far away from most of our kin and so it's not so easy to find out the clan it seems.
But we have 3/16 BQ only and MCT enrollment require 4/16. So I've struggled half my life to know where I belong and whether I can "count" myself as Indigenous, as Ojibwe or not. It hurts my heart not to know. Some day I will go to my family on the rez and ask them if they think I fit in there. Until then, who knows? Migwetch, thank you for the lovely videos.
RedLake MN in the house. First dispo. In the state of MN.
Aaniin! I'm Turtle Clan, a member of the Fish Clan. A drummer dreamt of my name and gave it to me. Later I made an offering to an Elder to confirm it.
Aanii cousin, I'm from Neeyaashingnigming, Ontario and I'm happy to finally follow a fellow Ojibwe. I got myself the bear clan and I'll always provide and protect them because that's the bear clans way
My kids are Ojibwe from Minnesota. Last name skinaway!!
I'm not considered ojibwe enough to be recognized so I'll just say my great grandma is ojibwe but none of us after that are technically Anishinaabe. My great grandma is waabizheshi dodem. I still learn the language and culture though despite not being Anishinaabe by blood quantum.
Blood quantums blah blah blah. Fairely certain my family was anishinaabe born 1824 that was moved from Erie Huron City area just on the bounds of the United States side on the edge of the land around lake Erie. to Missouri and then again to Cherokee land in Oklahoma. My grandmother still carried the last name that was given to us by the white people and we are just supposed to sit here and be white. It's better to learn where you come from.
Aaniin. Just sharing my perspective... I feel my indigenous Ojibwe ancestry is the most important even though I only have one great grandmother with this connection - it’s more important than my Ukrainian and polish sides that are equal to my Ojibwe. It’s a missing piece that I only recently connected. I’ve been listening to Braiding Sweetgrass and the cultural stories have connected my personally derived viewpoints. it closes that hole where I didn’t understand why perceived the world so differently from other (including colleagues in my field). Especially environmentally and taking care with the place we live. Embrace your heritage - maybe to the extent it resonates with you. I look very much Caucasian but finding out specifically the Ojibwe heritage has finally clicked like a missing puzzle piece. I am learning. And am thankful even for this video to know the original clans. It’s important to know and for as many of us to learn as much as we can so it is not lost.
@@jays9519 I'm from missouri 🥰 too
@@LuluWCLifestyle I feel like of youre just a naturally grounded person. Because of "modernization" being pushed back by indigenous communities (I'm from other tribes my blood quantum is sufficient in) we see natives as being grounded and connect to it... We forget that all cultures and people were like that but colonization and modernization took that from them. I'm sure if you learned about polish traditions and discovered the tribes or the ukraine and what they were before the modern colonization you'd feel just as equal to them as you do to anishinaabe.
You'll rarely find a traditional culture pre modernized colonization that isn't what you described Anishinaabe as being.
@@alexandrahenderson4368 Aaniin! ;) thank u for replying! maybe I am naturally meant to be grounded (which I am now). It took a lot of discomfort for me to shift towards grounding and healing. But regarding my steadfast connection to my indigenous roots in particular is likely b/c of not having any tangible knowledge of it and my ancestry was purposefully concealed... it’s hard to explain. That left its impression on me. I visited my Ukrainian and Polish great grandparents throughout my life. My Ojibwe gg was concealed and purposely erased (grrrr). It’s a strange vacant piece that should be there. But at least having a People that aligns (and knowing it now)... it’s like you get a gift and it’s the rarest gift... you hold it precious.
I am ojibwe. And I am a pieces. I am interested to find out more. My sisters and I have a different kind of situation, and we are trying to bring our culture into our lives more, but it would sure be helpful to have some ppl to collaborate with!
Mermaid Parker ... I was wondering if you know anyone who knows the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, currently: Richard A Baker, tells Mr President and Justin Castro what to do? My reason is founded upon the last 8 paragraphs of the Royal Proclamation of October 7th., 1763. Mi'igwich
Much Love and chi megwich as a 60`s scoop who lived HELL by horrable people ,I found my teachings 23 years ago traveling around and cerimonies learning from my ojbway 110 year old from Alberta his apprentace an ojbway who was from Manitolin, I followd my father who was fish so I claim that sturgen and I herd that you can`t marry or eat yur clan I love hearing your version, Much Love & many blessings CHI MEGWICH, Wingushjeepcunnn,I don`t know how to spell my indian name but this is how it`sounds, I named both my chidren native names and there indian names they sweat for they werefallow both almost exactly what I named them but in ojibway as my daughter was Tashina Naomi her name is shitow qwesents know qway, tashina meanning that white buffallow layng over mother earth, My son was named Tecumseh Raven his name is good sounding bird I can`t rmember it right know but as a 60`s scoop raised hearing every horrable lie as well as they kept me away from any other native,My mother called at 17 and I started learning lies as well as the driking was insaine so when cerimonies came at 30 my chidren being 2 & 7 we started travelling all over turtle island for a decade bringing it back to ourpeople as we did cerimonies all over north america Great teachings love your channel,Sorry I can`t spell only having around gr,4/5. noone cared it was aweful along with the abuse & horror show as a child mine lived a great time travelling all over with teachingsgoingbac over 400 years as he was raised by his grandfatheralso a cerimonie maker & teacher, I TOUGHT like you 22 years ago in our head start brnging a prayer with smudge as well as the teachings your speaking on, So Very Verry happy to find you, Chi megwich
@@anthrop0phag Agin chi megwich = thank you so very much, to you as well.
I have family from Leech Lake Reservation Northern Minnesota
What type of extension of the learning of the clans would you do with grade1/2? What follow up activity would solidify their learning the clan system
You are native American ? I wish I could find my mother I dont know what tribe I am or anything . its hard for me .
I am Ojibwe, which is a nation from the eastern woodlands. Our territory crosses today’s borders on Turtle Island. So many of us have lost our lineage. There were once 500 nations on turtle island, before the settlers arrived. Those Nations have more in common than u might think. So I encourage u to learn from as many First Nations as u can. U may not have a direct link to one Nation but u will feel the connection to the teachings from all. We all have blood memory and your spirit will know when it hears ur ancestors teachings.
@@whitebuffalocircles-athome2247 I totally agree! If you see my first comment, I didn’t know anything about my great grandmothers ancestry and have slowly put some pieces together. We have Anishinaabe Ojibwe decent and after reading Braiding Sweetgrass the cultural stories resonate. My soul has been waiting for this piece to click together. My blood remembers! My one slight hesitation is that I look completely Caucasian when my gg is Ojibwe. (I don’t feel Ojibwe enough to be Ojibwe. But I fully embrace this as the most important part of me!!) but I am going to do my part by learning the culture and even learning some language. I hope others can empathize that even with someone like me, we can still feel lost and disconnected... ❤️ I love the meaning of aaniin (I see your light). Such eloquent language.
So, I am curious. You said your mother looked up which clan you were apart of. Is there a way to find out what your families clan was? My great grandfather was Ojibway from St. Ignace, Mackinaw, Michigan.
his wife, mother of his daughter
Anishinaabeg follow the father's clan. But if you can't find yours you can start with Waabzheshii (Marten) clan because they adopt those who need a clan. Then you can participate in a ceremony to discover if you belong to another clan.
miigwech! I am told my great grandmother was makwa, but because my grandfather was white, my dad is Eagle clan...
My question is which clan do the children take? So if the mother was bear and the father was martin, what qould the childen identify as? would they take thir father's clan or their mother's clan?
miigwech!
Makaw clan♥️Ho-Wah♥️
Only thing missing was more of the language..anishnabemowin..aani Michael Leon endignaous mikanuk dodem bahweting endonjiba.
I feel like I'm fish
I'm of the turtle mountain band of chippewa Indians and have been my whole life same as my father and grandfather. If I'm being honest my dad told me my name means young man in ojibwe (the name on the account). Unfortunately he passed in 06 and he only spoke our language when he was drunk and despite my best efforts of getting him to teach me I know literally nothing of my peoples language (he said whites would mock me). As far as I know my legal and native name is just gibberish.
I hope you are able to confirm! I’m so sorry for your dad’s experiences. Go do what you need to do! Don’t let it be lost! :)
I'm a member of the same band. Small world
There are language websites and dictionaries available. A little research may tell you what you want to know.
bear clan number 1
Miigwech cousin bullhead clan mille lacs band living in Ohio
It's called the BullHead clan bro.
Im loon clan