Walking the Old Road: A People's History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe

The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village-and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore

At the turn of the nineteenth century, one mile east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, you would have found Chippewa City, a village that as many as 200 Anishinaabe families called home. Today you will find only Highway 61, private lakeshore property, and the one remaining village building: St. Francis Xavier Church. In Walking the Old Road, Staci Lola Drouillard guides li...