How to use the Ojibwe People's Dictionary

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Showing Category: ricing

: Nodenens tying rice

: History of Lumbering

: Nodinens ricing season

: Jim Clark Naawigiizis Ricing

: Portage Lake ricing

: Doug Sam socializing at the lake

: Warren Leech Lake ricing

: Warren Prairie Rice Lake ricing

: Densmore ricing sticks

: Portage Lake rice storage

: Wild rice plant description

: Bardon knocking rice

: Portage Lake Memegwesiwag knocking rice

: Nookomis old way of parching rice

: Nookomis importance of kettles

: Kids dancing the rice

: Sanitizing the rice

: Fanning the rice

: Mazaan uses

: Pounding the rice

: How to make a bootaagan

: The Story of Wild Rice

: Doug Sam rice boat

: Wild rice waters

: The need to protect rice

: The need to improve present wild rice program;;Indian Affairs Committee

: Birds eating rice

: Nodinens rice storage

: Other rice storage containers

: Wild rice tribal corporate enterprise

: Storing rice for the winter

: Fanning and threshing wild rice

: Jigging barrel

: Threshing wild rice, White Earth Reservation.

: Mortar and pestle used for threshing or jigging rice

: Grace Rogers and Joe Aitken knocking wild rice

: Cedar ricing pole

: Cedar knocking sticks

: Knocking sticks

: Knocking sticks

: Cedar bark storage bag

: Cedar bark storage bag

: Cedar bark storage bag

: Cedar bark storage bag

: Cedar bark storage bag

: Yarn and plant fiber storage bag

: Birch bark makak

: Birch bark makak

: Birch bark makak

: Wood barrel

The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is developed and maintained by:
Nora Livesay, Editor
John D. Nichols, Founder and Linguistic Editor

with support and collaboration from the University of Minnesota's Department of American Indian Studies and University Libraries.

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Speakers & Regions Key

Individual speakers and speakers from different regions use different words when speaking. Each audio recording is marked with the initials of the Ojibwe speaker. Click on a speaker's initials to go to the speaker's bio page. If an Ojibwe word is particular to a certain region, it will be marked with a region code. Click on the region code to go to the Regions page.