The Chippewa diet once centered on fish, game, wild rice, corn, maple sugar and an enormous variety of nuts, berries, greens and tubers. But this diet changed when, as a result of treaties, the United States Government paid for Chippewa lands with commodities, and introduced salt, fatback, spices, wheat and coffee.

Games: The Ojibwa used games to teach their children many things, including good behavior, safe behavior, and other important manners and skills. These games were creative and fun, and are still enjoyed today. They include Butterfly Hide and Seek, and Moccasin Pebble.

Despite a strong removal policy towards most American Indian groups East of the Mississippi, the United States government did not force a majority of the Ojibwa off of their land. Rather, the Ojibwa lost some of their territory in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

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The Chippewa today are of mixed blood, mostly Native, French and English. Many live on reservations in Canada and the United States (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and North Dakota).

Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids Woodland Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians Ojibwa Games

• Butterfly Hide and Seek: Butterfly Hide and Seek was a quiet game.
• The Moccasin Game: The Moccasin Game was a noisy game.
• Lacrosse: Lacrosse was a rough game.

One of the most popular Native American sports was lacrosse. This is still a popular sport today. Different tribes had different names for the sport including stickball, bump hips, kabucha, and little brother of war. The game was played with a ball that was passed around using sticks with nets attached to the end.

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Basket Dice. The basket game, named taludza gunti or “basket play” but also called “dominoes” or “Jacksnaps” in reservation English, was a popular game among the Cherokee. Men played against women, with a ceremonial as the stakes. The basket game was integrated into several major rituals which took place every year.

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Instructions

1. Decorate one side of three of the dice with stars.
2. One player tosses the dice in a bowl.
3. The player who rolled the dice takes a number of sticks equal to the number of points he scored.
4. The second player rolls and is scored just as the first player was.

To Play: Each person takes a turn throwing one dice, the person who gets the blank side up will start the game; if there is a tie then those people keep on throwing. The starting player throws the dice into the air and tries to score points according to the patterns that the dice land in.

Stickball developed in the late 18th century from such English games as old cat, rounders, and town ball. Stickball also relates to a game played in southern England and colonial Boston in North America called stoolball. All of these games were played on a field with bases, a ball, and one or more sticks.

: baseball adapted for play in streets or small areas and using a broomstick and a lightweight ball.

Stick Ball – Cherokee Heritage Center.

The first phase took place from 1776 to 1783, in which the Cherokee fought as allies of the Kingdom of Great Britain against the American colonies. The Cherokee War of 1776 encompassed the entirety of the Cherokee nation.

Sequoyah

Sequoyah (pronounced in Cherokee, S-si-quo-ya) has been credited as the first person in history to create a written language alone without being literate in another language. He is known as the creator of the Cherokee syllabary, a list of syllables representing unique sounds in the spoken Cherokee language.

President Andrew Jackson

When gold was discovered on Cherokee lands, white prospectors flooded over the border onto their lands, and the state of Georgia used this as a pretext for declaring all treaties with Indian nations to be null and void.

John Ross

The Cherokee people called this journey the “Trail of Tears,” because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.