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Grand Portage National MonumentA wood fire glows in a clay Quebec oven outside the kitchen.
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Grand Portage National Monument
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A summer lodge in the Monument's Ojibwe Village.
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The reed mat base of an Ojibwe summer lodge allowed breezes in yet helped to keep rains out as did the roof constructed of birchbark panels.

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The staff at Grand Portage National Monument have created brochures that help visitors invision how Ojibwe people survived winter in northern Minnesota and shared their technologies with Euroamericans.
The Gap - along the Grand Portage.  

Did You Know?
The Grand Portage goes through a gap in the hills formed by more rapid weathering along bed-rock shattered through movement along a crack named the Grand Portage-Poplar Creek fault by geologists.

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Last Updated: May 12, 2008 at 02:28 EST