Boozho, another useful suffix is "oonse" = younger or smaller, diminutive eg: Nimoosh= dog, Nimooshoonse= small dog or puppy. Again, I believe this is from...
Boozhoo, Interprutation well apparently the migizii was hungry as it has chosen to chance feeding at a human waste facility yet how should the need for such an...
boozhoo everybody, in practice I hear it mostly as "zoak-po" with the "i" not really emphasized. this would be sw ontario and mi ... pronounced pronounced...
Zhimmy Kanata (kanata_zhimmagish@...) has sent you a news article ... Personal message: An excellent example of how to mainstream the language. Edmonton...
Miigwech, but I've decided that the word was transcribed incorrectly and the word is not "ozaanamoon" ("osaurumoun") but rather "ozaanaman" ("osaurumaun"),...
I wanted to add something to this....it is pretty funny - I just recently had an Ojibwe wedding - if you can call it that. When we started to plan, we were...
Aanin, I wish to name my dogs Sun Face, Snow Patch and Yellow Fur. They are great friends and are descended from the Wolf. Sun Face is a yellow labrador with...
Kwe Do any of you know which roots to use for face paint? I have been asking many nish friends, and no one seems to know which roots to use. I would like to...
... Aaniin Charlie, Maybe neither gender, at least not in the sense that it can be given a plural in either -ig or -in . Would we agree that womb (sing.)...
Sorry, just have to say this - Ojibwe people did not have an eleborate wedding ceremony. Many other tribes did and still do. We do not. Book learning (like...
Wetonsa Aniin nishnab I'm not sure who is feeding you these line's that there isn't or wasn't a Ojibway Traditional wedding Because is was and still is...
Sun Face - Giizis gziibiingwe Snow Patch - Goon bgwaygan Yellow Fur - Ozaawaa biiway I hope this is what you are looking for and if I am wrong in my grammer I...
I had a black labx named "Nimkiis" and I sometimes regretted naming him that...like the time I came home and found my LR an inch deep in crafting materials! He...
boozhoo all, I'm sending this message to learn some new ways of saying "bye". I'll add my own little tidbits and observations along the way. I hope some of you...
For face paint, Blood root, (Sanguinaria officinalis) gives red color Maple bark (boiled) gives blue color Soot & bear fat gives black chalk & bear fat gives...
Aaniin, **Without** looking into "Bird Nomenclature of the Chippewa Indians" by W. W. Cooke, could someone tell me what this bird is? Cooke's source was from...
... I'll ... some ... towards ... Here we say either giigaa waabimin or giigaa waabimin minawa the first meaning I'll see you the latter meaning i'll see you...
Aniin n Bozhoo ~ I have to agree here....it was n is beautiful....was n is sacred....marrage was a time for almost all that would come at a place for them on...
All are difficult to wash off - especially the ones with bear fat. Better get some cold creams. ... I am the rave, the freedom, and the bass: no man rocketh...
Aniin in my opinion best is not to complicate things. You can refer to Ojib lessons for greetings and departing. I learned that with respect it's Buzhoo when...
I never been to a Ojibwa wedding. However from what I read from a book (Whatever that is worth) they claim they were much like the Huron. Like stated below...
First of all its not really important to learn "bye" as you inquire. But how and why they say "good-bye". In Ojibwa they believe all things are interconnected...
hello from france I have a website with some of my poems. one (4 sentences) is alreay translated in more of 70 languages, and i would found more translations,...
We are due in April and are hoping to name our baby with a traditional name. However, I have read a lot about choosing a name especially off of the internet....
For a comparison, in Hodenoshonee languages, which include Wyandot, we say "O:nen" which can mean "I am done, my words are done, until later" depending on the...
Ya can help u if u are traditional and all take acsema an go to your elders to ask them for this they should know what to tell you as no names of ours are...
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