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The word totem entered the English Language a couple of hundred years ago. It comes from an Ojibwa word, nindoodem, which means my family mark. It most closely translates to clan. It is a plant, animal, natural force or material that is identified with a specific group or clan, rather like a group badge with sacred connotations.
