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The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings
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Saturday, August 23, 2025 12:32PM
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James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw BIO
Ojibwe Dictionary
Ojibwe: -se = denotes spontaneity
Ojibwe: Aanik = ‘to be interconnected’ or ‘to be linked’ or ‘to work in a sequence’
Ojibwe: Aanikanootaage = ‘to translate’
Ojibwe: Aanike-ogimaa – vice president
Ojibwe: Aanikegamaa = chain of lakes
Ojibwe: Aanikobidoon = ‘running out of thread and typing another piece of thread to the end of the first. (When this happens, the two pieces of thread become one.)
Ojibwe: Anishaa means for nothing
Ojibwe: Anishinaabe = human being.”
Ojibwe: Anishinaabe = the one who is nothing without their relatives (NATURE)
Ojibwe: Asemaa, means tobacco
Ojibwe: Bakade = to be hungry
Ojibwe: Bashkodejiibik or Mahkodewashk, means sage
Ojibwe: Bimaaddizi, it could mean = the eternal is moving through the impermanent.
Ojibwe: Bwaanzhi-dewe’igan, the Dakota Drum
Ojibwe: dabas = low
Ojibwe: Dabasendizowin breaks down into three morphemes:
Ojibwe: Dabasendizowin means HUMILITY
Ojibwe: de = the heart
Ojibwe: Debwe means, s/he tells the truth, s/he speaks the truth
Ojibwe: Debwe means, s/he tells the truth, s/he speaks the truth
Ojibwe: Debwewin means TRUTH
Ojibwe: gichi means great
Ojibwe: Gichi-dibaakonigewinan = The Great Law
Ojibwe: Gichi-dibaakonigwewinan means The Seven Grandfather Teachings
Ojibwe: Gii’igoshimowin, which means the vision quest.
Ojibwe: Giiwe = which means ‘to go home.'
Ojibwe: Giizhik, means cedar
Ojibwe: Gimishoomisiminaan = our grandfather, the sun.”
Ojibwe: Gizhe-manidoo: The Kind Spirit, The Benevolent Mystery, The Creator
Ojibwe: Gizhenaabe = a kind man, Ojibwe Dictionary
Ojibwe: Gwayakwaadiziwin means HONESTY
Ojibwe: Ininaatig = the maple tree, the man tree
Ojibwe: Iskiamizige-giizis = the maple sap boiling moon
Ojibwe: Manaaji’idiwin means RESPECT
Ojibwe: Mandaamin = corn, literally means the wonder seed
Ojibwe: Mashkode-bizhiki = buffalo
Ojibwe: Mikinaako-minising = Turtle Island
Ojibwe: Mino = Good
Ojibwe: Namebin = the suckerfish
Ojibwe: Namebini-giizis = February, The Sucker Fish Moon
Ojibwe: Nibwaakaa = enlightenment
Ojibwe: Nibwaakaawin means WISDOM
Ojibwe: Niin (I, me, myself)
Ojibwe: Ogichidaa = a warrior, Ojibwe Dictionary
Ojibwe: Okij, the pipe stem
Ojibwe: Opwaagan, the sacred pipe
Ojibwe: waa = it is dawn
Ojibwe: Waabam means, to see
Ojibwe: waabanong = the east, from where the dawn comes
Ojibwe: Waabishkaa = the color white
Ojibwe: Waasese = a flash of lightning
Ojibwe: Waasigan = lightning flashes (a contemporary usage of electricity
Ojibwe: Waawaashkehi = the white tail deer
Ojibwe: Waawaate = aurora borealis, the northern lights
Ojibwe: Waawaatesi = firefly, beetles that emit lightens
Ojibwe: Wiingashk, means sweet grass
Ojibwe: zaag = to emerge, to rise.
Ojibwe: Zaagi’idiwin means LOVE
Ojibwe: Zaagibagaa = it is budding
Ojibwe: Zaagibagaa-giizis = The Budding Moon (month of May)
Ojibwe: Zhawenim = to have compassion for, to love
Ojibwe: Zhawenimishinaam, Zhawenimishinaam, Zhawenimishinaam, Zhawenimishinaam = Please bless us, please feel compassion for us, please love us unconditionally.
Ojibwe: Zhawenindizo means s/he loves themselves
Ojibwe: Ziigwan = spring (of the year)
Ojibwe: zoong = to be strong
Ojibwe: Zoongide’ewin means BRAVERY, COURAGE
Ojibwe: aabe means being, person
Ojibwe: aakonige means ‘with a stick-like or wooden article in hand’
Ojibwe: Aki = the earth
Ojibwe: Anishinaabe = the one who is humble before the Creator
Ojibwe: Bawaagan = a spirit helper, a dream helper, (Spirit Guide)
Ojibwe: Bimibatoo = s/he runs,
Ojibwe: Bimise = s/he flies.
Ojibwe: Bimose = s/he walks,
Ojibwe: Debwewin means truth
Ojibwe: Debwewin means truth
Ojibwe: dib means to judge, to measure
Ojibwe: dizo = of oneself, I think lowly of myself
Ojibwe: en = to think
Ojibwe: Gete-anishinaabe = an old time Indian.
Ojibwe: Mashkiki = medicine
Ojibwe: Mino-bimaadizi
Ojibwe: Misi-ziibi = The Great Mississippi River.”
Ojibwe: Ninga (my mother)
Ojibwe: Noos (my father)
Ojibwe: the ‘win’ suffix turns the verb into a noun
Wiyaka Sinte Win (Tailfeather Woman)