Gaamiskwaabikaang

Gaamiskwaabikaang lies in the Lake Superior country near Chequamegon Bay and Madeline Island. Ojibwe tradition tells of a westward journey along the lake to find the food that grows on water, wild rice, with the island as a final stopping place. French traders and missionaries came to the bay in the seventeenth century. During the eighteenth century, Ojibwe communities associated with La Pointe spread from the island into the mainland country to the south and west.