Ojibwe Language Materials

Texts from "Ojibwa Texts" collected by William Jones (1919).

  Series I

1. Oshkinawe gii-nibod neyaab gaa-izhi-bimaadizid / The Youth who died and came back to Life

2. Wozhaawaaskokaskitaasepason / Blue-Garter *

3. The Orphans and Mashoos *

Series II

4. Odaawaakwe / Ottawa-Woman

5. Mikinaak omitigwapishimonike gaye / Snapping-Turtle and Caddice-Fly

6. Mikinaak nandobani / Snapping-Turtle goes to War

7. Bizhiw Zhigaagokwe gaye. Lynx and the She-Skunk

8. Ojiig Esiban gaye / The Fisher and the Marten

9. Shaangweshi wa(a)bizheshi gaye / The mink and the marten *

10. Bizhiw / The Lynx

11. Megoos mashkiigimin gaye / The Awl and the Cranberry

12. Majiikiwis / The First-Born Son

13. Majikikwewisag Zhingibis Gaye / Foolish Maidens and the Diver (pdf)

14. Majiikiwisag gaa-baaga’adowewaad / The First-Born Sons play Ball

15. Wenjiiwaad animooshag / The Origin of Dogs

16. Wiindigoo Nesind / When a Wiindigoo was Slain (pdf)

17. Old Man Mashos / Mashoos akiwenzii (pdf)

18. Animikiig / The Thunderers

40. Onaman / Magic Paint

* Original Jones' phonetics in the double vowel writing system. 

Comprehensible Input files (text): 

Bizhiw A1 - adapted for total beginners (pdf)

Migoos mashkiigimin gaye A1 - adapted for total beginners (pdf)

Foolish Maidens and the Diver A1 - adapted for total beginners (pdf)

Familiar phrases to facilitate conversation in the Indian language, Wikwemikong, 1872.

Writing system

1. For questioning, affirming, denying, going, coming, &

2. To inquire after health.

3. Of the age.

4. On the hour.

5. For and after breakfast.

6. On the weather.

7. For and at dinner.

8. Concerning the Otchibwe Language.

9. On travelling by Land in the Indian country (in winter).

10. On trevelling by water in the Indian country (in summer).

Texts adapted according to Ilya Frank's Reading Method. 

Gii-ikwezensiwiyaan. When I was a Little Girl (pdf) (by Maude Kegg)