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OJIBWE ADDITIONAL TEACHER RESOURCES

WEBSITES

VIDEOS

Little Medicine: The Wisdom to Avoid Big Medicine (973662), 51 minutes, Produced by OMEGA, Distributed through Toronto District School Board Media Resources. How did Native Americans and pioneers avoid "big medicine"? They practiced "little medicine", all the little things you should do to avoid injury and disease. Discover...plants used to repel bears and snakes and plants that repel disease carrying mosquitoes and flies. Organic, natural garden sprays from wild plants. How to eradicate lice with a treatment for baldness. Plants used to treat bites, stings and envenomations. Herbal wound treatments, antiseptics and antibiotics. Nutrient rich dog food made from wild plants. Kombucha, primal medicine, performing miracles today. Ancient foods: heart medicine and cancer inhibitors. Herbal News Network: health tips you can use today. With Jim Meuninck. Appropriate for Senior Grades.

PUBLICATIONS

Johnson, Basil (1982). Ojibwe Ceremonies Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. ISBN: 0-7710-4445-3

This book gives an overview of ceremonies such as the Naming Ceremony, the Drum Ceremony and Vision Quest and the Marriage Ceremony

Johnson, Basil (976). Ojibwe Heritage Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd. ISBN: 0-7710-4442-9

Johnson describes the Ojibwe stories of Creation and Re-creation as well as the stories of the character called Nanabush.

OTHER RESOURCES: AUDIO CASSETTE AND BOOKLET

Bebamikawe, Isadore Toulouse (1995). Kidwenan: An Ojibwe Language Book Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Peace Tree Printing ISBN: 1-896027-16-4

This resource includes an audio cassette of simple Ojibwe/Odawa phrases, nouns and verbs. There is an accompanying booklet highlighting action verbs, numbers, parts of the body places, weather and greetings.