“Ma’iingan Is Our Brother”: Ojibwe and Non-Ojibwe Ways of Speaking about Wolves

If you sat down with a wildlife biologist and asked about wolves, you might expect to hear about ecology-population dynamics, predator-prey relationships, and the like-and perhaps about public attitudes and the Endangered Species Act. You probably would not expect to hear a creation story. For many people, the former are primary ways of speaking about contemporary wolf issues. For some, the latter is central.