Ginebig

Ginebig-ziibi, the Snake River, flows through the wooded country of eastern Minnesota toward the St. Croix. Its Ojibwe name means Snake River. In 1804 the North West Company trader John Sayer established a post beside it to trade with the Ojibwe living nearby. The river was part of a wider world of canoe routes and portages through forest and lake country, where Indigenous traders supplied furs and obtained goods from distant markets.