Editing Anishinaabe traditional beliefs (section)

==Migration story==
According to the oral history of the Anishinaabeg, they originally lived on the shores of the "Great Salt Water" (presumably the [[Atlantic Ocean]] near the [[Gulf of St. Lawrence]]). They were instructed by seven prophets to follow a sacred {{lang|oj-latn|miigis}} shell ([[whiteshell]]) toward the west, until they reached a place where food grew upon the water.<ref>Benton-Banai (1988), pp. 89-102</ref> They began their migration some time around 950,<ref name="BBonezerotwo">Benton-Banai (1988), pg. 102</ref> stopping at various points several times along the way, most significantly at {{lang|oj-latn|Baawitigong}}, [[Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|Sault Ste. Marie]], where they stayed for a long time, and where two subgroups decided to stay (these became the [[Potawatomi]] and [[Odawa]]). Eventually, after a trick by two of the clans, the other clans travelled west (see William Warren's account of this incident) and arrived at the [[wild rice|wild ricing]] lands of Minnesota and Wisconsin (wild rice being the food that grew upon the water) and made {{lang|oj-latn|Mooningwanekaaning minis}} ([[Madeline Island]]: 'Island of the [[yellow-shafted flicker]]') their new capital. In total, the migration took around five centuries.<ref name="BBonezerotwo" />

Following the migration there was a cultural divergence separating the Potawatomi from the Ojibwa and Ottawa. Particularly, the Potawatomi did not adopt the agricultural innovations discovered or adopted by the Ojibwa, such as the [[Three Sisters (agriculture)|Three Sisters]] crop complex, copper tools, conjugal collaborative farming, and the use of canoes in rice harvest.<ref>Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Waldman & Braun.</ref>