Gojijin

Gojijiing is the Ojibwe name for the country around Rainy Lake and the Rainy River, whose waters flow west towards the Lake of the Woods. Cree, Monsoni and Ojibwe people lived in this lake country when French traders began to arrive. In 1731 an advance party of La Vérendrye's expedition built Fort Saint-Pierre on Rainy Lake, establishing a post along the waterways that led farther into the northwest.