O JIBWA T RAVEL, AND S HELTER By: Madison

H OW O JIBWA A DAPTED TO THEIR E NVIRONMENT Ojibwa people adapted to their environment by making canoes. and made their cloths out of the environment around them. For their food they went in the canoes they made out of birch bark and hunted for fish in the lake they lived by.

W HAT O JIBWA P EOPLE L IVED I N You are probably, wondering what do Ojibwa people live in? Well, they lived in birch bark wigwams. Wigwams are round and tall houses that Ojibwa people made out of birch bark and long grass pieces. Ojibwa people made a fire inside their homes so they could be warm in the middle of the night.

H OW O JIBWA P EOPLE T RAVELED You are probably wondering how did Ojibwa people travel? They usually traveled in birch bark canoes. Ojibwa canoes were very hard to make. It takes a lot of energy to make these canoes. Canoes can also be made out of birch bark, and some special string they made out of dried out grass.

O JIBWA S HELTER Ojibwa people usually get really cold in the middle of the night. That is because they live in a wigwam that does have heat. Ojibwa people did not have heat back then. So they had to make a fire. They made a fire by using two pieces of wood One with 4 holes in it and one without any holes. Then you have to take a piece of string and a stick and twist the stick with the string. Then when it starts a to smoke blow on it and then it will make a fire.

W HERE O JIBWA M IGRATED Ojibwa migrated from the Atlantic coast to the upper peninsula. Sense Ojibwa is part of the three fires, the other part of the three fires migrated somewhere else near by were we live. Ojibwa had to migrate across the water which back then the water was pure ice. Sense it was ice when they migrated they did not have to use any traveling item like a, canoe, or a boat. They just had to walk across the ice with their legs.

O JIBWA IN THE WINTER In the winter Ojibwa had to make their own blankets and make their own fires. Ojibwa had to make a lot of blankets because they were the biggest group in the hole three fires. Ojibwa probably had to work the hardest out of all the three fires because like I said they are the biggest group out of the hole three fires.

H OW O JIBWA MADE THEIR WIGWAMS Ojibwa people made their wigwams a very common way. They made it with birch bark, dry grass string, and some long pieces of grass put together. They used the grass put together to make the bottom of the wigwam. They used the birch bark to make all the rest of the wigwam covered. Finally they used the dried grass string to tie the whole wigwam together.

H OW O JIBWA MADE THEIR CANOES Ojibwa basically made their canoes the same way as they made their houses. (Wigwams.) They had to use the same things as they used with their houses. They used dried grass, and birch bark. You can see that’s basically the same thing as the home, but for the canoe they did not use the dried grass stuck together! They only used the single piece of dried grass.

H OW D ID O JIBWA M AKE S O MANY T HINGS F OR T HEIR B IG F AMILY Well they only had so many people so they were able to have almost every body to help make what they needed in live. Ojibwa people did not have that much trouble making things because like I said they had a fairly large family.

O JIBWA Q UILTS Here are some pictures of quilts, that Ojibwa made with their family out of different materials.

O JIBWA C ANOES Here are some pictures of what Ojibwa traveled in.

P ICTURES I got all my pictures from: Google.com And clipart