Directory of Anishinabe Resources

Folklore of the Anishinabe tribes: Ojibwe (Ojibway) or Chippewa, Algonquin, and Ottawa.

Resources in This Category

How Dogs Came to the Indians

http://www.samoyed.org/dogind.html
An Ojibwa legend, explaining how dogs came to man.
Nanabush Stories and other Ottawa Legends

http://www.native-languages.org/ottawa-legends.htm
Index of Ottawa Indian legends, folktales, and mythology. Including definitions of Nanabush, Gchi Mnidoo, Nookmis, and the Windigo.
Ojibwe Oral Tradition

http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/ICW-141.html
Seventeen traditional stories from the Chippewa tribe.
Ottawa story of the Union of Corn and Bean

http://www.native-languages.org/ottawastory.htm
An Anishinabe (Ottawa, Ojibwe, Chippewa) tale of why corn and bean plants are always planted together. This story involves the squash maiden, bean maiden and corn.
Tales of the North American Indians

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/tnai/
A collection of Northern Tribe folklore including Manabozho (the trickster) and the Other World.
The Ghost Woman and Heavy Collar of the Bloods

http://www.nativetech.org/poetry/ghost.html
The Ghost Woman and Heavy Collar of the Bloods
Turtle gets a Shell

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TurtleGetsaShell-Anishnabe.html
The Anishinabe tale of how the turtle got its shell.
Windigo: from Canadian (Ojibway) Folklore

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/windigo.html
A retelling of a classic encounter with a windigo.

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us