Ojibwe is better described as a language continuum consisting of multiple languages. The larger the geographical distance between native speakers, the less like

Ojibwe is better described as a language continuum consisting of multiple languages. The larger the geographical distance between native speakers, the less likely their spoken form will be mutually intelligible. Like the Romance languages. Portuguese and Spanish are pretty close, and while they are much different from Romansh and Romanian speakers might be able to pick out words from each others' speech. So you probably learned moon from another variation of Ojibwe than the dictionary.