The Ojibway offer traditional ways to follow the Red Road:

• Give thanks daily to the Creator for all gifts around you.
• Approach each day with a smile, grateful for another opportunity to live.
• Become involved in personal daily ceremony and/or seek out community ceremony.
• Do not judge other two-leggeds. Accept that they are living out their lessons of this earth walk as they should.
• Feed birds in winter, and plant flowers and trees that birds like in the spring.
• Avoid hurting another being. If it is necessary to cut a tree or its limbs, then place tobacco on Mother Earth and give thanks for its gifts. Replace the tree.
• Whenever possible, pick up garbage where it is found.
• Wherever possible, bury animals that you find dead, and place an offering of tobacco in its mouth or on its body.
• Treat the earth and all that dwell upon it with respect.
• Remain close to the Great Spirit.
• Show respect for your fellow beings.
• Work together for the benefit of mankind.
• Give assistance and kindness wherever needed.
• Do what you know is right.
• Look after the well-being of mind and body.
• Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good.
• Be truthful and honest at all times.
• Take full responsibility for your actions.

Anishnabe 101: The Basics of What You Need to Know to Begin Your Journey on the Red Road. Published by the Circle of Turtle Lodge our of Golden Lake, Ontario