Reflection on Ojibwe and Blackfoot

Question: Discuss about the Reflection on Ojibwe and Blackfoot. Answer: Introduction: History says that the Ojibwe are an Anishinaabeg group of people living in North America. It can be found out that this group of people lives in Canada and the United States and are one of the largest indigenous ethnic groups in that place. Moreover, in Canada, they are the second largest First Nations population, surpassed only by the Cree. I have learnt that the Ojibwe people traditionally have spoken the Ojibwe language and they are the part of the Council of Three Fires (Nesper, 2012). Ojibwes are primarily a woodlands people. It is necessary to mention here that I have observed that Chippewa Indians are as well known as the Ojibwe and they converse a different type of the Algonquian words and are very intimately associated to the Ottawa and Potawatomi Indians. In total, Ojibwe means Ottawa, Potawatomi and some other Algonquian peoples. From the detailed observations, I have found out that Ojibwe or the woodland Chippewas were generally the farming people and they used to harvest wild rice and corn, fishing, hunting little game along with gathering nuts as well fruits (Craig, 2015). Apart from that, I have found that the Plains Ojibwes were wild animal huntsman and earlier buffalo meat made up most of their cut back. Research works and the reports say that in the mid-seventeenth century, there were near about 35,000 Ojibwe on the continent and with the expansion of time, the number has increased. History says that the Ojibwe used to call themselves the Anishinabeg, i.e. first or the original people (Nesper, 2012). Presently, I have found out that the Ojibwe people are facing some issues like financial expansion for plummeting the rate of joblessness, the protection of the wild rice business from the profitable growers, superior medicinal management for fighting sickness like alcoholism, diabetes. Better administration of the natural resources, fortification of agreement rights and accomplishment of independence as well as augmented importance on higher education to teach experts along with renovating the educational ties (Craig, 2015). Reflection on Blackfoot The Blackfoot, who are too termed as Blackfeet, Indians were basically an itinerant American Indian ethnic group that travels from the Great Lakes Region to the North western part of the United States. From history, I have learnt that this one country has developed over time into four separate and self-governing ethnic groups, everyone with their own administration (Craig, Yung Borrie, 2012). All of them live in the same geographic region and thus they have very similar clothing style, weapons and food habits. Presently, I have seen there is one Blackfoot stipulation with inhabitants of approximately 10,000 Indians in the United States and an additional 15,000 live in Canada (Ewers, 2012). There are four different tribes of Blackfoot and they are as follows: North Peigan Pikuni (Craig, Yung Borrie, 2012) Blackfoot/Siksika Pikuni/ Peigan Blood/Kainai History says that the Blackfoot Indians were skilled huntsmen and they used to hunt buffalos. In the year 1880s, the white people started hunting buffalos and due to this, more than 600 Blackfoot Indians famished to bereavement as a result of their reliance on the approximately destroyed buffalo. However, I can state that every of the four ethnic groups divide up one bureaucrat speech named Algonquian, though they are independent in nature. It is necessary to mention that this speech is spoken by numerous other Indian ethnic groups in the United States (Dempsey, 2016). References Craig, D. R., Yung, L., Borrie, W. T. (2012). " Blackfeet Belong to the Mountains": Hope, Loss, and Blackfeet Claims to Glacier National Park, Montana.Conservation and Society,10(3), 232. Craig, T. (2015). Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country.The Canadian Journal of Native Studies,35(1), 162. Dempsey, L. J. (2016).Blackfoot war art: Pictographs of the reservation period, 18802000. University of Oklahoma Press. Ewers, J. C. (2012).The Blackfeet: raiders on the northwestern plains. University of Oklahoma Press. Nesper, L. (2012). Twenty-five years of Ojibwe treaty rights in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.American Indian Culture and Research Journal,36(1), 47-78.