OJIBWE

FARMING METHODS

• Using a controlled fire to make trees fall.
• Rip bark off a couple of trees by each other, for sunlight.

Way of Life
Some of the Ojibwe tribes were using improved fishing techniques. They also had adopted ceramics, and had developed their way of life. They tapped maple syrup. They made their houses out of birchbark wood. They fished normally, like baiting a hook and lowering it, they spear fished.

Tools and Weapons
Early on, they used tools/weapons made out of stone and wood. They often used bows, clubs, knives. Later, when the traders came to America, they traded furs for guns.

Trading
They started trading before the Europeans came in the mid 1600s. Firstly, they allied with the French to trade when they came into the Great Lakes, 1660. In the 1700 & 1800 centuries Britain & the French put up a trading post in Ojibwe Country, to attract them to the fur trade. With trading the Europeans, hunting quickly changed to trapping. Also, they started to use cloth instead of deer hide.

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TRANSPORTATION - CANOES

• They made birch bark canoes, they were extremely sturdy. They could carry 6,000lbs and yet 4 men.
• They were easy to repair.
• If the canoe completely broke, you could make 1 within a week.

TRANSPORTATION - SNOWSHOES

• They made the snowshoes oval shape, with raw hide lacing in them.
• Also, with upturned toes so the hunters could travel easily & not get stuck in brush.

TRANSPORTATION - TOBOGGANS

• They never called them toboggans, the French did. They called them nobugidabans.
• They were used in the winter to haul stuff and people. It had a strap on the end so, if it went out of control they could pull hard & get it back to normal.

How They Affect Us
The Ojibwe affect us today because of they way they lived, like their fishing and hunting techniques.The way they did their fishing and hunting is the way we do ours today. It affects us because we use the stuff they did, if they did it differently we would.

How They Affect Us
The Ojibwe contributed to engineering with all the things they made/did. For instance with out the snow shoes, it would be extremely hard for them to hunt & not get game for their tribe/family. Also, without their farming methods we (pilgrims) wouldn't know how to start farming.

SOURCES

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe
• http://bulletins.psu.edu/undergrad/courses/C/CED/401
• http://www.native-art-in-canada.com/ojibwatransportation.html
• https://www.mpm.edu/wirp/tool.html
• http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/ojibwe.html
• http://ojibweweaponsandwarfare.weebly.com/weapons.html

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Bryn & Brittany did research
• Brittany & Bryn did the slides