@askanelder

What is your spirit name, what does it mean to you, what is your clan? 

What is a vision? 

How did residential school have impact on you and your life?

How I was, when giving birth.

How much does your culture mean to you?

How surprised were you when you had twins?

Nancy describing her own birth. 

What age did you learn how to speak Ojibwe Language?

What clan are you and what does it mean to you? 

What is the most inspirational moment you’ve had in your culture? 

What is your spirit name? 

What moon is most important from all 13 moons? 

What was it like without electronics as a child?

When was the language first spoken and where did the language come from? 

How often should we feast our items?

What did anishinaabe use to skin a deer with?

What did they use to stop headaches?

Why are legends told in the winter?

Why do native people have long braided hair?

What happens when the father doesn’t have a clan?

Why are there 7 days in a week?

Why do Ojibwe people point with their lips?

Why do so many elders have sweatlodges in their backyards?

Why is a powwow called a powwow?

Why is the sky blue?

Can you get a spirit name from an elder or do you have to be related?

Can you listen to powwow music while you’re sleeping?

Did the Ojibwe share common stuff or did they share everything?

How did you fish and hunt?

How did you know animals were sacred?

How do I properly ask an elder a question?

What time of the day do you give spirit names, have you given a spirit name before?

Why are circles so important to ojibwe?

Why are eagles sacred?

Why do some animals hurt you when you tell legends when its not winter?

Why do we have indian names?

Why do you dress up for a powwow?

What are Ojibwe beliefs in regards to past lives and reincarnation? (if any)

How do you say “my head is spinning”

What did elders use to heal cuts when they were hunting or trapping? 

What is a shake tent?  

Why aren’t we supposed to interpret spirit name? 

What kind of food did you eat when you lived in the bush?  How did you usually prepare your food (boiled, roasted, etc)? 

What does the word “amootson” mean in Ojibwe?

Can you shoot a spirit?

Can you talk about legends?

Did you ever see the black spirit?

What do the medicine wheel colours represent?

Have you ever fought someone in your dreams?

What happens if a bird enters a building?

What happens if we disrespect an animal?

What happens if you kill a snapping turtle?

What happens if you kill an animal?

What happens if you kill an eagle without tobacco?

What happens if you shoot an animal and leave?

Where did FN get the name indians from?

What happens when you see someone thats passed on, in your dreams?

Where does sweet grass grow?

What is bimaadiziwin?

What are the ceremonies we go through?

How come women aren’t allowed to be around the drum?

How come Animals heads have to be covered?

What is smudging and why do we smudge?

What does the train bridge by Ranier signify?

What does love mean to you?

There are two ways of saying hungry, what’s the difference? 

How do I take care of my eagle feather?

How did aboriginal people come up with the word
winnowing?

How do we get food for fall harvest today?

How was fall harvest done in the past?

My daughter chased a goose and the goslings’ leg got
hurt…

Who celebrated fall harvest in the past?

Why did we have fall harvest in the past?

What did ojibwe do when they got a fish bone stuck in there throat?

Does everything on earth have a spirit?

What is the purpose of fasting?

Why can’t women hit the drum?

Why do bears have small tails?

Why do people have clans how do you get one?

Why do we dance on the wildrice?

Why do we walk a certain way at a ceremony?

Why does the turtle have a shell?

Why don’t we go counter clockwise at a powwow?

How do you say female dog in Ojibwe?

If you’re metis can you still have a clan?

What happens if you sell wild rice to other
reserve?

What is midewin religion and who can join it?

What is ojibwe view on dressing modestly for both Men and Women?

Why do cats and dogs live with humans?

 

30 thoughts on “@askanelder

  1. what are the ceremonies we go through in life from birth to death like: umbilical cord, naming, first kill, vision quest, etc.

  2. How come women are not supposed be in and around the drums in the middle at the powwow? Can they come around and give tobacco to the drums?

  3. Why did the Aboriginal people have a Fall Harvest in the past?

    Why do the Aboriginal people have a Fall harvest today?

    Who celebrated Fall harvest in the past?

    Who celebrates Fall Harvest today?

    How was the food harvested in the past?

    How is the food harvested today?

    How did the Aboriginal people celebrate the end of Fall harvest in the past?

    How do Aboriginal people celebrate the end of Fall harvest today?

    How did the Aboriginal people come up with the word for “winnowing”?

  4. I once read that a Windigo was a spirit that is the embodiment of famine, gluttony and hunger in men. Why is that?

  5. This comes from a couple of years ago. Why is it disrespectful to play with an animal’s part after they give you their life? For example, playing with a beaver’s tail?

    Ashton Meeches

    PS – I hope you remember me Ms. Nancy Jones.

  6. what does it mean when a biigomakakii comes to your house or comes to visit.
    what does it mean when a lime green frog comes to visit and is on your house?

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