Food

Indian woman picking huckleberries

Woodland Chippewas were mostly farming people.  They harvested wild rice, squash, and corn, fished, hunted small game, and gathered nuts and fruit. 

The plains Chippewas were big-game hunters and mainly ate buffalo meat. When Plains Ojibway men hunted buffalo, they set fires to herd them into traps. Woodland Chippewas used spears or fishhooks with sinew lines for fishing.

Buffalo