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Date: c. 1836-42 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 27 x 34 in. (68.58 x 86.36 cm) (canvas)

This view of Fort Snelling,Mendota, Minnesota, It was painted between 1836 and 1842.

Description of Fort Snelling (above)

In the immediate foreground on the right is the Sibley House, owned by General Henry H. Sibley (1811-1891), regional manager of the American Fur Company and, later, the first governor of Minnesota, from 1858 to 1860.

At the right of the Sibley House is Henry Sibley''s office. To the left is Faribault House, built for Jean Baptiste Faribault (1774-1860), who began operating a trading post in Mendota in 1819.

To the left is the house of the ferryman, who transported passengers across the Minnesota River. On the western banks of the river is Fort Snelling, and on the hill to the left of the fort is Franklin Steele''s house. An early pioneer to the area, Steele developed waterpower at the falls and established the first logging and lumber companies. The two smaller houses on the left were either for officers from the fort or men affiliated with the fur-trading company.

Song sung by the Ojibwe ,old pictures of the Ojibwe-Chippewa tribes

Tribe: Ojibwa-Chippewa - Northern Ojibwa

Period: 1825-1850

Materials: Knife case: Native tanned hide; dyed and natural porcupine quills; Red glass seed beads; tin cones; dyed red horsehair. Knife: Steel; bone; copper.

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Creation Tale (below)

In the beginning,

the world in which we live did not exist. Kitchi Manitou, the Great Spirit, had a dream in which he saw a world made of mountains and valleys, lakes and streams, plants and animals, and people. In his wisdom Kitchi Manitou realized that he was to bring these things into being. He created a world made of four primary elements; rock, water, fire and wind: To the sun he gave the power to heat and light the earth, To the earth he gave the power of growth and healing, To the water he gave purity and renewal, To the wind he gave music and the breath of life itself, After these things Kitchi Manitou created human kind. To them he gave the power of dream. As the world was new, the Ojibwa people had much to learn and Kitchi Manitou took pity on them and sent them a teacher, Nanabush. Nanabush was the son of a human mother and the West Wind spirit father. He was sent to earth to teach his people about the healing plants, about kindness, generosity, and honesty. One of Nanabush’s first tasks was to name the trees,

the waters, the mountains, the animals, the birds and the plants

Artist / OriginAnishinaabe (Chippewa, Ojibwa) circa 1780

MaterialBlack-dyed buck skin, natural and dyed porcupine quills, dyed deer hair, metal cones

Artist: Anishinabe (Ojibwe) Title: Beaded Knife Sheath Date: 19th century Medium: Cotton, leather, glass beads Dimensions: L.12-1/2 x W.3 in., excluding beaded attachments

"We honor the earth, for it is our Grandmother, and its gifts are of our Grandmother. We know our Grandmother changes her spirits from cold to warm, from warm to hot, from hot to warm, from warm to cold. This is her cycle, but with each change she gives us the gifts that are appropriate and necessary."

Ignatia Broker, Ojibwe

Isadore Wadow - 1970s

"Ojibwa Bear In Fish Spawn" 1962.

Basic Elements of Aboriginal Art

*Spirit lines, which often radiate from the spines of animals or emanate from both the interior and exterior of figures (e.g., animals, birds, humans)

*Depictions of spiritual power

*The relationship of human beings to the greater world and to other beings

"Loons" - Unknown Artist

(Migration – The Great Flood by Norval Morrisseau, 1931?-2007, Canadian Ojibwa artist)

Artist: Artist Unknown (Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)) Date: c. 1800-1810

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