Author(s): Ashish Manoj, Purnima Bali

Abstract: Ojibwe creation stories constitute the central epistemological framework of Anishinaabe ceremonial traditions. The stories are encoded with ancestral epistemic insights necessary for the continuum of Indigenous American tribal traditions in settler-dominated America. The application of Eurocentric interpretative paradigms erases the complex epistemic multidimensionality associated with the stories. The paper unearths central epistemic insights from the creation stories rooted in Indigenous gynocentrism. The paper establishes a crucial epistemic connection between Anishinaabe tribal cultures and the Indigenous woman. Through a tribal feminine epistemic lens, the paper also establishes the relational interconnections within space, time, and the mother deities in the formation of tribal realities contradistinctive to colonial simulations of reality.

Keywords: Sky-Woman, Gynocentric, Ojibwe, Anishinaabe, Grandmother Moon.

Article Info: Received: 25 May 2026; Received in revised form: 17 Jun 2026; Accepted: 20 Jun 2026; Available online: 22 Jun 2026

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.113.74