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- The Midewiwin (in syllabics: ᒥᑌᐧᐃᐧᐃᓐ, also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin) or the Grand Medicine Society is a religious society of some of the Indigenous...
- America. The Anishinaabe have four different Medicine Societies. The Midewiwin (also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin) is the Grand Medicine Society of...
- trade in copper, and their harvesting of wild rice and maple syrup. Their Midewiwin Society is well respected as the keeper of detailed and complex scrolls...
- Northeastern Woodlands region. Their religious beliefs are part of the Midewiwin tradition, with ceremonies led by medicine keepers, called Medeoulin or...
- Today, many Algonquin practice traditional Midewiwin or a syncretic merging of Christianity and Midewiwin. In the oral history of the Great Anishinaabeg...
- of complex geometrical patterns and shapes. When used specifically for Midewiwin ceremonial use, these scrolls are called mide-wiigwaas (in syllabics:...
- southern Ojibwe form a religious organisation centring around healing, the midewiwin, in the 18th century. The 19th century saw the arrival of Protestant missions...
- Seven fires prophecy was originally taught among the practitioners of Midewiwin.[citation needed] William Commanda, an Algonquin elder and former chief...
- ceremonies to comfort his grieving brother. This became the core of the Midewiwin rituals that Gluskab then p****ed on to the humans. The Anishinaabeg give...
- located primarily in the Great Lakes region of North America. Like the Midewiwin, the Wabunowin is a secretive animistic religion, requiring an initiation...