Paths of the People

Anishinabe, Saulteur, Ojibwe, Chippewa - all these are names of a people who have lived in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin for the past three centuries. Ojibwe oral tradition speaks of life as a circular path, with parents passing on knowledge to children and grandchildren. Over the past 300 years, contact with Europeans and settlement by non-Native Americans have forced them to adapt to survive. The challenges each generation has faced - whether at treaty grounds, boarding schools, or boat landings - have influenced what knowledge has been passed down, what paths taken.