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The Ojibwe lived in wigwams, which were harder to move than the Dakota tipis.
The Dakota had many different food sources. They ate buffalo, game, vegetables, melons, maple sugar, and fish.
The Ojibwe mainly ate deer, maple syrup, game, wild rice, and berries.
The Dakota traveled using a travois, dogs, horses, and dugout canoes.
The Oijbwe used birchbark canoes, dogs, and snowshoes as forms of travel.
The Dakota's daily life included learning the ways of the people, hunting, garden keeping, and preparing food. What you did depended on your age and gender.
Ojibwe people hunted, fished, collected food, made clothing, and had celebrations.
Dakota crafts had geometric patterns, and their clothing was made of buffalo and deer hides. The picture is from the MNHS EDU textbook.
The Ojibwe wore deerskin clothes. Their beadwork featured floral designs. The picture is from the MNHS EDU textbook.
Dakota: the name Dakota means friends or allies.
Sioux: the Dakota was also known as the Sioux, a name given to them by the Ojibwe, which meant evil, or snake-like.
Ojibwe: the name probably comes from their puckered moccasins, according to historians.
Anishinaabe: another name for the Ojibwe, meaning original people.
Chippewa: yet another name for the Ojibwe, a mispronounced version of Ojibwe.
The Dakota and Ojibwe both had religious ceremonies. They both also used canoes, though their ways of making them were different. They both hunted game, they both harvested wild rice, and kept large gardens.
The Ojibwe and Dakota fought for years. They finally formed an alliance in 1679. The alliance stated that the Ojibwe would get Dakota land in Northern Minnesota. The Dakota would benefit by getting new trade goods from the Dakota. The picture is from the MNHS EDU textbook.
A fun fact about the Dakota- a man nicknamed Buffalo Bill killed 4,280 buffalo in 18 months!
A fun fact about the Ojibwe- the Ojibwe's puckered moccasins were made of buffalo hide.