The Mide'wiwin Or "grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa

excerpt from the book..The Ojibwa is one of the largest tribes of the United States, and it isscattered over a considerable area, from the Province of Ontario, on theeast, to the Red River of the North, on the west, and from Manitobasouthward through the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Thistribe is, strictly speaking, a timber people, and in its westwardmigration or dispersion has never passed beyond the limit of the timbergrowth which so remarkably divides the State of Minnesota i