Pikwedina Sagomam

Pikwedina Sagainan is an Ojibwe name for Lake of the Woods, a vast lake of bays and islands on the route between the Rainy and Winnipeg rivers. The name has been translated as “inland lake of the sand hills.” Its rocky shores and wooded islands have been inhabited for thousands of years. Indigenous travellers used its waters as part of a network of canoe routes, later followed by fur traders moving between the Great Lakes and the western interior.