Ojibwe

The Ojibwe, also known as Anishinaabe or Chippewa, are one of the largest Indigenous peoples of North America, whose traditional territory spans the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, from present-day Ontario and Manitoba through Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, reached over centuries through a westward migration recorded in Ojibwe oral tradition. Traditional Ojibwe subsistence centered on hunting, fishing and the harvesting of wild rice (manoomin) and maple sap, and the Ojibwe developed the Midewiwin, a formal religious society preserving traditional teachings, alongside a distinctive tradition of birchbark scroll and wigwam construction. The Ojibwe language remains among the more widely spoken Indigenous languages in North America, and Ojibwe communities today live across numerous First Nations reserves in Canada and tribal reservations in the United States, including the White Earth and Red Lake nations in Minnesota.