DAKOTA AND OJIBWE

DAKOTA NAMES

OJIBWE NAMES

• Ojibwe: referring to their original puckered moccasins.
• Anishinaabe: original people

SIMILARITIES OF THE DAKOTA AND OJIBWE

• They both travel with canoes, horses, and dogs.
• They both spend a lot preparing things for winter/traveling and they both hunted quite a bit.
• They they both wear deerskins and moccasins.
• They both eat maple sugar, deer, berries, and wild rice.
• They both moved every season.

DIFFERENCES OF THE DAKOTA AND OJIBWE

• The Dakota had tipi's and lodges as shelter but the ojibwe had wigwams.
• The Dakota used travois to travel but the ojibwe did not though they did use snowshoes.
• The ojibwe had birchbark canoes but the Dakota had hollowed out logs as canoes.
• Ojibwe had floral designs on their clothing/crafts the Dakota did not. But the Dakota had geometric shapes on their clothing/crafts.

DAKOTA AND OJIBWE INTERACTIONS

• The Dakota and the ojibwe were enemies they attacked each other's camps and the Dakota stole the ojibwe's horses, but then the fur traders came and they formed an alliance and from there on out their lives changed dramatically.

OTHER FACTS ABOUT THE DAKOTA

• The Dakota told many stories all of them teach the a lesson.
• The Dakota wore buffalo hides, deer skins, elk skins, bear claws, and moccasins.
• They ate maple sugar, corn, pumpkins, beans, melons, muskrats, berries, wild rice, moose, deer, elk, badgers, otters, raccoons, fish, cakes, geese, pigeons, cranes, ducks, and buffalo.
• The Dakota held many events some of which are: political council meetings, religious ceremonies, sporting events, marriages, and coming of age ceremonies.

OTHER OJIBWE FACTS

• Some things they did daily were: tapping maple sugar, hunting, making canoes, harvest, collect berries, play lacrosse, kids sled, women and girls cooked and sewed, and they prepared for winter a lot.
• The ojibwe did more than work. They played games like lacrosse and the kids played snow snake (a winter time game). And in the summer they feasted a lot.