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Minnesota Historical Society. Ojibwe family, ca. 1860. 

Ojibwe families would travel to their summer village sites in canoes piled high with everything they would need to set up their summer homes.

Questions:
1. What do you think the Ojibwe family is carrying in their canoe to their summer homes?
2. Who is paddling the canoe?
3. What is the canoe made out of?

Play video to watch canoe move

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Page Jump
1  Essential Question
2  Learning goal
3  New Vocabulary words
4  Summer Season – “Today you will learn about”…
5  Video – Summer Village – Migration 
6  Summer Wigwam
7  Video – Getting Seeds
8  Gardening  - Tools
9  Slide Show – Ojibwe Cultivated Foods & Video – Planting the Garden
10  After the Harvest
11  Video – Refilling the Cache
12  Gathering
13  Slide Show – Gathering
14  Where Do You Get Your Food?
15  Summer Sports and Games
16  Games of Chance 
17  Ojibwe Games
18  Ojibwe Toys
19  The Little Snapping Turtles – Maude Kegg Personal Story in Ojibwe & The Little Snapping Turtles – in English
20  Animated Story – The Little Snapping Turtles
21  Turtle Story Questions
22  Pow-Wows
23  Summer Season Review
24  Essential Question Review
25  Learning Goal Review
​26  Extension of Learning & Maude Kegg writing activities ​