Native Heritage of Killarney Peoples

Anishinaabe Culture

Minjmendaan is Ojibwe for "to keep in mind; to remember". It is an annual newsletter highlighting Killarney's history and current information about issues that affect First Nation peoples. Its first edition was published in the summer of 2002. Now available online.

Odawa History

Ojibwe History

Potawatomi History

The Three Fires Confederacy

The Ojibwe Creation Story

Ne-naw-bo-zhoo Stories

As told in 1897 by A.J. Blackbird or

Mack-aw-de-be-nessy (Black Hawk)

of the Odawa Nation

Ne-naw-bo-zhoo: Supernatural Teacher

The Origin of Ne-naw-bo-zhoo

Ne-naw-bo-zhoo Battles His Brother

Ne-naw-bo-zhoo and the Great Flood

Ne-naw-bo-zhoo and the Great Fish

The Anishinaabe Migration Story

The Seven Fires Prophecies

The Clan System

The Healing Arts & Medicines

The Seven Teachings

The Sacred Tree

The Medicine Wheel

Religion and Spirituality

The Twenty-One Moral Precepts

of the Odawa and Ojibwe

As related in 1897 by Andrew J. Blackbird

or Mack-aw-de-be-nessy of the Odawa Nation

The Lord's Prayer in Odawa/Ojibwe

As translated in 1897 by Andrew J. Blackbird

or Mack-aw-de-be-nessy of the Odawa Nation

Various Odawa/Ojibwe Words

As translated in 1897 by Andew J. Blackbird

or Mack-aw-de-be-nessy of the Odawa Nation

Structures, Locations, Places

Land Features

Numbers and Colours

Persons

Weather, Seasons, The Sky

Most Killarney people trace their Native roots through Anishinaabe ancestors: the Ojibwe (also called Chippewa), the Odawa (also called Ottawa), and the Pottawatomi. These pages focus on the history and culture of those tribes, who formed an alliance called the Three Fires Confederacy many years before our most recent ancestors settled around Lake Huron.

Above: At the sugar camp of P.R. and Virginie (Miziwek) de Lamorandiere. Pictured outside the boiling shack are Virginie (left), Ernestine Haitse (also standing), and two of Virginie’s granddaughters: Marcella and Stella Proulx. The piles of baskets in the foreground of the photograph were hand made, of birch bark, and used for gathering sap. This photograph was taken about 1918.