Anishinaabe
Definition: possibly reflecting a traditionalist’s viewpoint with a certain moral dimension – refers to “the good humans”, or good people, meaning those who are on the right road/path given to them by the Creator.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anishinaabe
Found in: The Shawl by Louise Erdrich
Quote: “And in that moment of knowledge, don’t you thin, being who she was, of the old sort of Anishinaabeg, who thinks of the good of the people first, she jumped, my father, n’dede brother to that little girl? Don’t you think she lifted her shawl and flew? (last page, last paragraph).
Knowing this word made me understand how the narrator suggested a reconsideration of his father’s past by explaining his sister’s personality as being a person who is kind beyond kindness and would do anything for others. By being an Anishinaabe, she might have scarified herself for the sake of the baby.
