This pattern is to make a shawl or scarf that tells a story. Over seven distinct parts, this story wrap illustrates the Ojibwe story of Nanabosho (or Nanabushu, Nenaboozhoo) and the Moose-Head, using different images, symbols and colours, all created through knitting. Not only does making this wrap help you learn the story, but is also meant to be shared with others – it is to be used to retell in order to share this story and to promote the revitalization of the languages and cultures of Turtle Island. Originally, I designed this shawl as a community resource project for a class on Canada’s Indigenous languages at Glendon College in Toronto, Canada. It was part of a project meant to add to resources to promote and teach Ojibwe and so I decided sharing the pattern on Ravelry was the best way to share my creation with anyone who would also like to know this story and learn about the Anishnaabeg people. Otherwise, this wrap is fun to knit, colourful, big and cozy, making it worth it even if you only share its story with one other person. The original Ojibwe story and the English translation, including all of the charts and instructions necessary to recreate it, are all included in the PDF pattern.

The story and its translation comes from the Baadwewedamojig Project, which aims to convert the William Jones collection of stories into modern orthography and translate into English. You can read more about Baadwewedamojig here:

http://ojibweproject.weebly.com

The story used for this wrap, as written line-by-line in the pattern, can be found at this link:

http://ojibweproject.weebly.com/nanabushu-and-the-moose-h...

This shawl can really be made with any yarn, with any weight, as long as you adjust the needles and yardage according to the yarn. I used a total of 7 skeins of Classic Elite Yarn’s Chalet/Chateau, in 5 different colours. Just make sure you pick at least 4 different colours (i.e 2 different shades of brown, 1 blue, 1 green) with up to 7 for each different part, (i.e. 3 different brown, 2 blue, 2 green) to represent each part of the story.

Each section needs around 100 yds. of yarn, plus about half of that for the arrowhead borders.

I hope you enjoy knitting and telling the story of Nanabosho and the Moose-head!

Miigwech! Thank you!

Ojibwe Story from the William Jones Archive, Volume 1, 1917 from the Baadwewedamojig Project (Alan Corbiere and Alana Johns, 2012) http://ojibweproject.weebly.com