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The Midewiwin (in syllabics: ᒥᑌᐧᐃᐧᐃᓐ, also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin) or the Grand Medicine Society is a religious society of some of the Indigenous

America. The Anishinaabe have four different Medicine Societies. The Midewiwin (also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin) is the Grand Medicine Society of

trade in copper, and their harvesting of wild rice and maple syrup. Their Midewiwin Society is well respected as the keeper of detailed and complex scrolls

Northeastern Woodlands region. Their religious beliefs are part of the Midewiwin tradition, with ceremonies led by medicine keepers, called Medeoulin or

Today, many Algonquin practice traditional Midewiwin or a syncretic merging of Christianity and Midewiwin. In the oral history of the Great Anishinaabeg

patterns and shapes, perhaps tied to Hand Talk. When used specifically for Midewiwin ceremonial use, these scrolls are called mide-wiigwaas (in syllabics:

located primarily in the Great Lakes region of North America. Like the Midewiwin, the Wabunowin is a secretive animistic religion, requiring an initiation

Seven fires prophecy was originally taught among the practitioners of Midewiwin.[citation needed] William Commanda, an Algonquin elder and former chief

Sundanese Wiwitan Native American Abenaki Alaskan Anishinaabe Ojibwe Midewiwin Wabunowin Apache Blackfoot Californian Kuksu Miwok Ohlone Pomo Chilote

southern Ojibwe form a religious organisation centring around healing, the midewiwin, in the 18th century. The 19th century saw the arrival of Protestant missions