Chippewa Indians

Location

• Minnesota,Wisconsin, Michigan
• Today Reservation - Canada

Daily Life

• Men - hunters/ protect their families
• Woman - farmers,child care, and cooking
• Grandparents - rasing children
• Children - hunting and fishing with father or chores
• Making boxes, baskets, and etc.

Food

• Wild rice and corn
• Fruits and vegtables
• Buffalo
• Fish
• Didn't store food for winter
• Sap

Housing

• Made of buffalo hide or birchbark
• Several clans live in house
• Winter house - tanning animal skin and making fishing pole.
• Summer House - Fishing in icelake

Other information

• Played Lacrose
• Story telling - how dogs came to tribe
• Weapons - fishing spheres, knockers, bow and arrows
• Canoes can carry nine people by one person