July 31, 2010

July 31, 2010

Since our first visit was cut short we went back to Grand Portage National Monument this morning. Even the second time it is quite interesting. We spend a little more time with the exhibits in the Visitor Center. The Monument and Grand Portage Trail sit on an Indian reservation of the Ojibway (Chippewa). Apparently there is some annual fee the National Park has to pay to the tribe for the use of its “ancestral” land. I find that interesting since the Ojibway, once they acquired guns from the Europeans, stole this land in the 1700’s from the Sioux, who were then forced onto the more barren Plains.

In the afternoon we drive south along Lake Superior past Duluth, MN and stay outside Superior, WI