Long ago in the late 1300’s, the Ojibwe people left “Ba wi ting,” which means the rapids, at present day Sault St. Marie on the eastern edge of Lake Superior. Most followed the south shore and stayed for about two hundred years at the large island in “Shag ah wami kang Bay,” today called Madeline Island. The Sioux and other... READ MORE >
In the early 1900s, an Anishinaabe man became ill with a strange sickness. In the 1970s, a man who then was in his 80s told me how they had taken him to “chi bi to bii gam” which means grand twin bays, called Grand Marais. The man who told me this story was “O jee g eynce” meaning Little Fisher.... READ MORE >
