OBJIBWE VOCAB
Ishkode - fire
Manomin - wild rice
Niiawee - person to whom a young person's life is dedicated; godparent, basically
Oodena - Town or realm
Wiigwasa - Birch bark
Wiigwaasi jiimaan - Birch bark canoe
Wiigiwaam - Wigwam
OBJIBWE MAGIC AND LORE
Mashkiki-winini - Healers (clerics) - Midewewin society, Medicine society
mashkiki is a medicine pouch
Tchissaki-winini - Fire and rope tricks (magicians)
Dreamers - (prophets / communers with spirits)
(Fire) Blowers - tribal historians, "keepers of the fire"