Introduction to Anishinabe Culture and History/A2
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Appendix 2 - Alphabetical glossary of words and terms
[edit | edit source]A
[edit | edit source]- Anishinabe, Anishinabeg: means "first people" (Anishinabeg is the plural). The chosen name of the Anishinabe tribe. Alternatively Anishinaabe or Anishinaabeg.
B
[edit | edit source]- Bungi: alternate name for the Anishinabe tribe, specifically the Plains Anishinabe.
C
[edit | edit source]- Chippewa: a disliked but common alternate name for the Anishinabe tribe; the official name of the tribe in government relations.
D
[edit | edit source]- Dakota: a neighboring enemy tribe with whom the fighting (over land and resources) was particularly intense.
F
[edit | edit source]- Fox (tribe): a neighboring, later enemy, tribe.
G
[edit | edit source]- Git-chi'e Man-i-to': the creator or "Great Mystery" of the Anishinabe creation myth.
J
[edit | edit source]- Jesuit, the Jesuits: Christian missionaries that were among the first to encounter the Anishinabe tribe.
M
[edit | edit source]- Mississauga: alternate name for the Anishinabe tribe, specifically the Northern Anishinabe.
O
[edit | edit source]- Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ojibwe: alternate names for the Anishinabe tribe (though Anishinabe is preferred).
S
[edit | edit source]- Saultreax: an alternate name for the Anishinabe tribe.
T
[edit | edit source]- Ten Cent Treaty: a settlement offered to the Anishinabe of the Turtle Mountain Reservation by the government, offering ten cents an acre for the ten million acres that were repossessed from the reservation for sale to Americans.
- Three Fires: a name used to collectively indicate the Anishinabe, Potawatomi and the Ottawa tribes.
V
[edit | edit source]- Voyageur, the Voyageurs: French fur traders and explorers among the first to encounter the Anishinabe tribe.
W
[edit | edit source]- Winnebago: a neighboring, later enemy, tribe.