Akiwenzii
Ojibwe/Chippewa word for "Old man."
Amenity
A desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place.
Chinook wind
A strong warming wind in the Great Plains interior of the U.S. and Canada.
Chippewa/Ojibwe
The American Indian tribe to which the main characters of Love Medicine belong. This is one of the largest extant tribes in North America and was originally situated in the Lake Superior area before forced migration west. The Chippewa language is part of the Ashinaabe language family.
Discrepancy
A lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts.
Fluorescent
Strikingly bright, vivid, glowing.
Jiisakiiwinini
A powerful spiritual leader, trained from birth.
Kinikinnick
A Native American smoking product made of bark and other plant materials.
Lariat
A long rope to catch livestock, with a noose on the end.
Makuk
A birchbark container decorated with geometric designs.
Manidoog
Also "manitou." As understood among Algonquian groups, including the Ojibwe, a spiritual being that can be both a person and an idea.
Michif
The language of the Metis people of the United States and Canada. The Metis are the descendants of Great Lakes First Nations women and French-Canadian and Scottish-Canadian fur trappers.
N'dawnis
Ojibwe/Chippewa for "my daughter."
Obsolete
No longer produced or used; out of date.
Pinocle
A trick-taking card game for two or four people.
Repose
To be in peace and at rest.
Ricochet
To rebound off a surface.
Scapular
Part of a monastic habit (the clothes worn by monks).
Spume
To produce a mass of froth or foam.
Stigmata
A Catholic term that refers to marks appearing on the body in the places where Christ was injured in the crucifixion.
Tomahawk
An axe from Native American groups that resembles a hatchet.
Windigoo
An evil cannibalistic spirit or boogeyman.
