MONTHLY THEMES Fall - Dagwaagin September - Harvesting October – Bird Hunting November – Big Game Hunting Winter - Biboon December- Story Telling January – Trapping February – Snaring Spring - Ziigwan March - Maple Sugar April - Spearing May – Planting Summer - Niibin June - Fishing July – Berry Picking August – Ricing
Ceremony* note: this topic is a sensitive area, should ask elders to teach Adoption Berry Fast Big drum Cedar bath Cedar in shoes Fasting Feast items, clan, name, helpers Feast school pipes, drums, school, Feasts Finding Clan First harvests First kill small game and also large game First moon & Berry fast Full moon Giveaways Grieving, washing up Marriage Naming Opening/closing school quarter ceremonies Personal Song Pipe, Tobacco Protection ceremony e.i. going off to war & on return Rites of passage – birth, clan, colors, naming, first kill, first moon, puberty vision quest Smudge school buildings Smudging Spirit colors Spirit plates – land, air (tree), water, fire Sunrise Talk to trees Thunderbird pole Tobacco and gift when asking SO to do ST Tobacco every morning, noon, evening – tree, rock, basket, or smoke Tobacco in lake Tobacco offering simple speech in language Tobacco out when travel, Tobacco when see eagle Tobacco when take/pick medicines or things
Crafts Beading - loom, flat stitch Clay pottery Floral designs Weaving mats Dream catchers Leather work Quill work
Cooking Animal processing food and material Butchering Canning Diabetes diet/nutrition Drying food Frybread making Nutrition Indigenous Food Meal grinding Outside bread Pemmican Smoking meat
Cultural Teachings* note: this topic is a sensitive area, should ask elders to teach Aadizookaanag – sky, earth, water Colors significances Connection to land and first family – reciprocal relation Cultural retreats/workshops/conference start each day with drum and pipe breakout topic circles Dream significance Drums Drum ceremony Eagle feather teachings Earth Wind Fire Water Elder talks First Family - Relation to land, Plants, Animals, Birds, Fish, People Hanging a feather outside of house or build a wigwam in yard Knowledge four directions Make Videos of teachings and activities Men’s roles Personal gifts Sacred items – pipe, drum, feather, rattle, whistle, Seven Values Grand Fathers – love, truth, honesty, courage, respect, humility, wisdom Talking circles – White Bison curriculum, anything they want to talk about, alcohol, bullying, Teachings by elders Thunderbird pole Thunderbirds Tobacco offerings Woman as sacred Women’s roles
Drum and Dance Drum and dance group Drum and Dance night/lunch time Drum protocol – clockwise, sing, dance or watch... Jingle dress, grass, traditional, shawl, fancy, Woodland, Chicken Powwow Dancing Powwow Singing
Elements Fire Water Earth Wind
Fishing Cleaning fish Drying Fish Fish filleting Fish life – behaviors, fish identification, Ojibwe names Fish Meal Fish traps Fishing /angle/netting/ice/tournament Fishing camp Ice Fishing Lure making Net making, net cleaning, hanging, repairing Netting Netting under ice Smoking fish Spearing Spearing dark house
Games Atlatl Spear Archery Bagese Bone game Hand Games Hoop and Spear Lacrosse Moccasin game Snow snake game
History Red Lake Old Crossing Treaty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0MT9POjCg8 Red Lake Timeline http://www.rlnn.org/MajorSponsors/HistoryProjectBeginning.html Anishinaabe Timeline https://www.bemidjistate.edu/airc/community-resources/anishinaabe-timeline/ Creation story, Clan systems, Seven Fires Prophecy, Migration, Colonization, Imperialism, decolonization, Columbus, Bartolome de las Casa, US Indian Policy - Disease, Fur Trade, Tecumseh, Pontiac, Indian removal act, Marshal Trilogy, Romanus Pontifex Papal Bull, Treaties, treaties end 1871, Treaty law, US jurisdiction Crowdog, Allotment Act 1887, Pequot wars, Beaver/Iroquios wars, Dutch introduce scalping, Ojibwe at Madeline Island, Cherokee nation v. Georgia, Worchester v. Georgia, Trail of Tears, Sandy Lake Annuity Fiasco, Assassination of Hole In The Day, Black Hawk War, Indian Massacres, battle at St.Croix falls, Battle at Millacs, King Philips war, French Indian war, Cut Foot Sioux at Leech Lake, Jay Treaty, Lewis and Clark, Battle of Tippecanoe, War of 1812, Treaty of Prairie du Chien, Major Crimes Act, Dawes Allotment Act, Nelson Act 1889, Wounded Knee, Battle of Sugar Point, Steenerson Act, Clapp Rider Act, Burke Act, General Council of the Red Lake Tribe 1918, Indian Citizens Act 1924, Meriam Report 1928, Termination Act, American Indian Movement, Indian Self-Determination Act, Indian Child Welfare Act, Missing and Murder Indigenous Women, Indian Self-Governance Act, Historic Trauma, leadership Boarding schools, Genocide UN, Indian Citizenship Act 1924, Indian Reorganization Act 1934, Tribal Constitutions Indian Relocation 1954, American Indian Movement 1970s, Indian Education Act 1972, Indian Freedom of Religion Act, 1978, Indian Child Welfare Act 1978, Historic Trauma, Aces, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW), Water protectors, tribal history
Language word of the day Exchange program Immersion camp Language bowls Language in school - calendar, transition, morning mtg, affirmations, language games, learning stations, Lunch room, bus drivers, security, academic areas, word of the day, in meetings, digital songs, language cds, songs, videos, web lessons, school web, SharePoint resources Language audio files Language camp Language flash cards Language Learning Language tables Language labels Self-introductions Traditional speakers* Value of the week 7 teachings theme
Maple Sugar Bush Maple sugar camps Maple Syrup Sugar Sugar Cakes
Medicines 4 Main Medicines - tobacco, cedar, sweat grass, sage Bear grease* Bear root Beaver Casters* Bitter root Blood root Minigan* Plant identification Red Willow tobacco Seven pines* Tobacco making – ingredients Tree Identification Wild Ginger
Outdoors Bug identification Camping Canoeing – incentive, mediation, health, Go out in woods Hiking Plant identification Snowshoeing Spirit Run – Sobriety Tree identification
Travel Indigenous games state and national Drum and Dance state competition Knowledge bowls Language Bowls MIEA – Language Bowl Fort Snelling Make elders Goodie Basket and talk with the Elders, like cookies or brownies. Mounds Pipestone – quarry Ponemah Anishinaabe University Powwows River watch Sacred Places – sacred spots around Red Lake, Turtle Mounds Inger Sacred locations Winter Games, Lac du Flambeau Reservation, 218-588-3838, Wayne Valliere, Sr.
Tribal Connections Archives Boys & Girls Club College Community Coordinators Courts Dietary DNR Elderly Fire Fisheries Gaming Head Start Nutrition Oshkiimaajitahdah Police Radio Recreation Self-Governance Tribal Council Tribal Roads Youth Division
Woodwork Basket making – ash, birch Bow and arrow making – survival Canoe building – survival, math Cradle board Drum making Drum sticks Lacrosse sticks Paddle making Rice knockers Rice poles Sled Snowshoes Toboggan Wigwam building
13 Moons Anishinaabe New Year begins on the first Full Moon that occurs after the Winter Solstice. One lunar month 29.53 days x 12 months = 354.367 days, about 11 days less than a solar year. If 12 Full Moons occur and we haven't reached the next Winter Solstice, a leap month is added. This occurs in years 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, and 19. Leap moon every 2-3 years Every 19 years (Metonic Cycle) we need 7 leap months after which the new and full moons return to the same days of the year. The moon rises and sets almost an hour later each day/evening.