Culture

Each Chippewa community lives on its own reservation.  Reservations are land that belong to the Chippewa and are under their control.  They have their own government, police, and laws.

Indian Reservation 

Wigwam

There were two types of homes used by the Chippewas.  In the woodlands, they lived in villages of birch bark houses called wigwams.  On the Great Plains, they lived in large buffalo-hide tents called tipis.  Today, most ojibways live in modern houses and apartment buildings.

Ojibway women were farmers and did most of the child care and cooking.  Men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families.  Both men and women worked together to harvest wild rice.

Ojibway warriors used bows and arrows, clubs, flails and hide shields.