Maggie Blackbird

Romancing Canada's Indigenous People

Where I live, there are places told to me where the Ojibway and Dakota battled.  There is even two towns that carry the names–one is a narrows and the other is a lookout spot.  One elder even mentioned a battle that took place where a bridge is now–it’s where she wanted to offer tobacco, she …

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Some spell it Ojibwe.  For others it’s Ojibwa.  But I grew up learning to spell it Ojibway.  All are correct.  There’s nothing I love more than immersing myself in a good book about the history, culture, and people of the Anishinaabe Nation. My love of reading prompted me to do a post about some great …

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