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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"

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