{"id":435,"date":"2024-10-31T12:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waterlibrary.aqua.wisc.edu\/maadagindan\/?page_id=435"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:20:25","slug":"keeshig-the-ojibwe-pterodactyls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/waterlibrary.aqua.wisc.edu\/maadagindan\/keeshig-the-ojibwe-pterodactyls\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeshig & the Ojibwe Pterodactyls"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Join Keeshig as he tells his mother about the Ojibwe Pterodactyls and their relation with Nanaboozhoo.<\/p>

Themes: Nature, family, Indigenous oral story, traditions<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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“Keeshig Spade (Keeshigbahnahnkut) is a six year-old Anishinabe from Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation. He currently resides with his family in Sudbury, ON where he attends Alexander Public School. Keeshig enjoys being a big brother to Kiniw and Wakinyan and he enjoys doing many things with them including playing outside, swimming and dancing men\u2019s traditional at powwows. Keehshig is a member of the Sturgeon Clan and has a gift for sharing stories and singing songs. Keeshig\u2019s favorite time of the year is when he gets to go back west in the summer to be with his kookums and great kookum. “<\/p>

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  1. Nanaboozhoo reveals itself to the storyteller and his mom as a “big piece of land.” What do you suppose Nanaboozhoo might mean to the Anishinaabe people?<\/li>
  2. Nanaboozhoo holds the thunderbirds in its heart.\u00a0 What do you hold in your heart?<\/li>
  3. The thunderbirds eat ginoozhe (northern pike) and “puffy snakes.” What do you like to eat?\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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    1. What stories do you like to tell? Find a quiet spot to sit with a loved one and tell a story to them.