Anishinaabe Pins and Buttons
Description: The term "Anishinaabe" refers to a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples primarily located in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississaugas, Nipissing, and Algonquin peoples, among others. The term also encompasses their language, Anishinaabemowin, which is part of the Algonquian language family
Description: Watercolor painting of Arch Rock using handmade watercolor paint made from responsibly and ethically collected pigments from the area of Mackinac Island, with permission and tobacco given. Arch Rock is sacred to the Anishinaabe (three fires) and a landmark of Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Description: Dennis Banks (born April 12, 1937), a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist and author, is an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks is also known as Nowa Cumig (Naawakamig in the Double Vowel System). His name in the Ojibwe language means "In the Center of the Universe." He has been a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, which he co-founded in 1968 with Native Americans in Minneapolis.
