The Anishinaabe peoples are divided into a number of doodeman, or clans, (singular: doodem) named mainly for animal totems (or doodem, as an Ojibwe person would say this word in English). In Anishinaabemowin, ode' means heart. Doodem or clan literally would translate as 'the expression of, or having to do with one's heart'; in other words doodem refers to the extended family. According to oral tradition, the Anishinaabe were living along the Atlantic Ocean coast an…