{"id":393,"date":"2017-09-24T21:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/?p=393"},"modified":"2020-07-14T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:40:03","slug":"cedar-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/cedar-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2222\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/km2016-205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2222 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/km2016-205-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/km2016-205-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/km2016-205-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/km2016-205-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/km2016-205-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/storynations.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/km2016-205.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shishigo Gijig and Pamela Klassen picking cedar at Rainy River. Photograph by Kaleigh McLelland, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 class=\"pop-up-title\">Cedar Tips<\/h1>\n<p>Women are medicine pickers in Ojibwe culture, and they are taught never to pick the cedar hearts. Therefore, Du Vernet makes an accurate observation when he writes about cedar \u201ctips.\u201d Cedar is used to ward away bad spirits and as a refreshing, deodorizing agent, due to its fragrant scent. During winter months cedar tips are used to refresh the home.<\/p>\n<p>Du Vernet describes seeing cedar tips in one of the log houses in Long Sault. He found the house together with Jeremiah, when escaping the mosquitos in the woods. Inside the house he saw a large drum, and Du Vernet speculated that the log house was used as a medicine tent or a long tent. He noticed in particular that the floor was covered with cedar matting, and surmised the cedar marked the spot where people would sit and dance during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of Jeremiah and Mary, as well as the Ojibwe men and women he met, Du Vernet developed a limited ability to read the material culture of the Ojibwe for clues to their ceremonial lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar Tips Women are medicine pickers in Ojibwe culture, and they are taught never to pick the cedar hearts. Therefore, Du Vernet makes an accurate observation when he writes about cedar \u201ctips.\u201d Cedar is used to ward away bad spirits and as a refreshing, deodorizing agent, due to its fragrant scent. During winter months cedar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cedar Tips | Kiinawin Kawindomowin \u2014 Story Nations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/storynations.preview.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/cedar-tips\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cedar Tips | Kiinawin Kawindomowin \u2014 Story Nations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cedar Tips Women are medicine pickers in Ojibwe culture, and they are taught never to pick the cedar hearts. 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