THE OJIBWE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE SEASONS

SPRING OR ZIIGWAN

• Traveled to maple trees to gather sap
• Sugar camp
• Repaired lodges and made new ones
• Made canoes

SUMMER OR NIIBIN

• Village sites near rivers and lakes
• Ceremonial feasts and dances and lacrosse
• Trading
• Crops (corn, pumpkin, squash, and potatoes)
• Fruits in forest (strawberries, juneberries, raspberries, blackberries, cherries, etc.)

FALL OR DAGWAAGIN

• Ponds, marshes, and lakes with wild rice
• Harvested wild rice in canoes
• Prepared wild rice eat and save for winter
• Children harvested berries while adults hunted game and fish
• Men hunted ducks and geese and men and women caught fish and preserved them for winter

WINTER OR BIBOON

• Family groups lived in their own cluster of wigwans in the pine forests, far apart from their neighbors
• Best hunters hunted large animals such as moose, deer, and elk
• Children and older men hunted and trapped smaller animals
• Women made fishing nets and hunting bags
• Made jackets and other clothes