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	GRAND PORTAGE, Minnesota, Ojibwe Indian Reservation
		The Grand Portage reservation has been called "an artist's paradise" because of its scenic beauties which may be visited without crowds, litter and the usual disappointments (most of the tourist-frequented parks are southwest of the reservation).
		Grand Portage -- tour old fort, casino info, pix northshore tourist service web notes that there are Indian attractions and accomodations, among the many luxury inns, parks and campgrounds of the North Shore area.
		Grand Portage's participation in the Minnesota 1856 Authority (a hunting-fishing regulatory body of 2 tribes signatory to that treaty concerning off-reservation reserved hunting and fishing rights) is discussed.
	www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/mn/grandport.htm (1072 words)

	MPR: Grand Portage: Rich in land, and protective of it
		But today's Grand Portage members are more likely to be found on treadmills or at the indoor swimming pool, fighting the epidemics of heart disease and diabetes that are common among American Indians.
		Grand Portage already owned 75 percent of the land on the reservation before it opened its casino in 1990 (the lodge has been open since 1975).
		Grand Portage didn't take part in early Ojibwe treaties with the United States, even though they were part of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2003/06/21_ap_grandportage (1255 words)

	Grand Portage National Monument Park Information, Pictures, and Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the late 18th century, Grand Portage served as the inland headquarters for the North West Company and was the location for a summer rendezvous involving Indian families, French voyageurs, Scottish clerks, pays d'en haut wintering partners and Montreal and London agents.
		The Grand Portage footpath can be accessed at three main points: across from the vehicle parking lot at the fort, off Minnesota State Highway 61 and up County Road 17 to Old Highway 61 where a small parking area bisects the portage.
		Grand Portage National Monument is about 150 miles northeast of Duluth, Minnesota and 50 miles southwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada along the beautiful north shore of Lake Superior.
	www.adventure-crew.com /parks/portage.asp (2134 words)

	Grand Portage National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grand Portage National Monument, located within the boreal forest on the north shore of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota, preserves a vital center of fur trade activity and Anishinaabeg Ojibwe heritage.
		The Grand Portage itself is a footpath which bypasses a set of waterfalls on the Pigeon River a few miles from where that stream runs into Lake Superior.
		The Grand Portage trail itself is an 8 1/2 mile trail connecting Grand Portage with Fort Charlotte on the Pigeon River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Portage_National_Monument (643 words)

	Grand Portage travel guide - Wikitravel
		Grand Portage is a small city in the far northeast of Minnesota, on the shore of Lake Superior and the border of Ontario, Canada.
		Grand Portage National Monument [1] is a trail used by fur traders in 1802 to transport their settlement (including 18 buildings) from the Lake Superior shore to the Pigeon River, to get out of U.S. territory.
		Grand Portage a launching point for ferries to Isle Royale, a wilderness preserve and national park in Lake Superior.
	wikitravel.org /en/Grand_Portage (192 words)

	GORP - Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota
		Grand Portage National Monument is a superb National Park Service facility, a place where history and terrain come together into a single, pithy unit.
		The Grand Portage itself was obscured by vegetation and fallen trees.
		In 1958, the Grand Portage band of Minnesota Chippewa donated the lands that became the national monument that same year.
	www.gorp.com /gorp/resource/us_nm/mn_grand.htm (1838 words)

	Grand Portage National Monument information, pictures and video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Grand Portage, Mount Rose Trail and hiking trails outside the stockade are open year round from dawn until dusk.
		During the winter, the Grand Portage is available for snowshoeing and cross country skiing but closed to motorized vehicles such as snowmobiles and all terrain vehicles.
		Grand Portage Indian Reservation, Grand Portage State Forest, Superior National Forest, and Isle Royale National Park are all close while Voyageurs National Park is about 300 miles west of Grand Portage in northern Minnesota.
	www.adventure-crew.com /parks/GrandPortage.asp (2383 words)

	Canku Ota - Dec.30, 2000 - Grand Portage
		GRAND PORTAGE, MINNESOTA -- When a 300-acre parcel that included the highest waterfall in Minnesota was put up for sale more than a decade ago, it could have been scooped up and developed as a resort or closed off entirely.
		Today (December 14, 2000), in the final step of a complicated deal to preserve the falls and the land around it for public use, the property is being returned to the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa, which had lost it long ago in a tax forfeiture.
		The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the band will sign a trust agreement in Grand Portage giving the property to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to be held in trust for the band.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co12302000/CO_12302000_GrandPortage.htm (502 words)

	Grand Portage, Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grand Portage is an unorganized territory in Cook County, Minnesota, on Lake Superior, at the northeast corner of the state near the Ontario border.
		Grand Portage National Monument celebrates the Ojibwe lifeways and the North West Company fur trading post that was once important in the area.
		About 18.9% of families and 21.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 28.1% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Portage,_Minnesota (408 words)

	Grand Portage Travel Planner - Grand Portage National Monument by TravelEze.com
		The monument was also established to work with the Grand Portage Band of Minnesota Chippewa in preserving and interpreting the heritage and lifeways of the Ojibwe people.
		Grand Portage National Monument is of international and regional significance because it was the central hub of a once flourishing fur trade.
		Grand Portage was and remains a meeting ground of diverse cultures.
	www.traveleze.com /travel_planning/grandportage.html (253 words)

	St. Paul Pioneer Press \| 07/23/2006 \| Grand Portage
		But all the portages paled in comparison with the 8½-mile Grand Portage, a detour around the cataracts and chasms on the lower 22 miles of the Pigeon River.
		But in the 1930s, with the help of federal work programs, the Grand Portage site was excavated and the stockade reconstructed by crews of local Ojibwe, many of them descendants of voyageurs.
		The Grand Portage trail is open year-round; there are two large primitive campsites at the other end, on the site of old Fort Charlotte.
	www.twincities.com /mld/twincities/living/travel/15085532.htm (2047 words)

	Grand Portage NM: Administrative History (Endnotes)
		Most of the published research on Grand Portage was produced by the Minnesota Historical Society Press and scholars connected with the MHS.
		The Minnesota Congressman wrote that he was frustrated at what he perceived as the Park Service's "lack of cooperation and commitment" to develop the monument.
		A Magnetic Survey of Fort Charlotte, Grand Portage National Monument conducted via contract with the NPS by Robert Huggins and John W. Weymouth, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (NPS, 1979), pp.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/grpo/adhin.htm (2232 words)

	GORP - Grand Portage NM, Minnesota - Monumental Moments
		In the far-northeastern crook of Minnesota, the Pigeon River drops 650 feet in a series of rapids that left Native Americans, explorers, and fur traders no choice but to carry their canoes and supplies overland.
		At 710-acre Grand Portage, history and culture come to life with replicas of the North West Fur Company's stockade, Native American crafts, and costumed guides who interpret the fur trade and Ojibwa tribal life from the 17th through the 21st centuries.
		Grand Portage National Monument is surrounded by the Ojibwa Indian Reservation and lies on the northern shore of Lake Superior, just shy of Ontario.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_nm/top-national-monuments-10.html (283 words)

	Grand Portage travel guide
		Located on the magnificent shore and boreal forest of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota, Grand Portage National Monument preserves a vital headquarters of 18th, 19th and 20th century fur trade activity and Ojibwe heritage.
		This centuries old Grand Portage became a major gateway into the interior of North America for exploration, trade and commerce.
		During the late 18th century, Grand Portage served as the inland headquarters for the North West Fur Company and was the location for a summer rendezvous involving Indian families, voyageurs, clerks, wintering partners and agents.
	www.world66.com /northamerica/unitedstates/minnesota/grandportage (240 words)

	National Park Foundation
		The historic site is to 1 mile south of the west and east exits from Minnesota State Highway 61 in the village of Grand Portage.
		The Grand Portage footpath can be accessed at three main points: across from the vehicle parking lot at the fort, off Minnesota State Highway 61 and up County Road 17 to Old Highway 61 where a small parking area bisects the portage (see map).
		Grand Portage National Monument headquarters located in the old coast guard building in Grand Marais is open year round from 8:00 a.m.
	www.nationalparks.org /planyourparktrip/parkprofile.asp?partnerid=1027 (579 words)

	Recreation.gov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Almost from the time the vigorous Scotsmen of the North West had organized at Grand Portage in the mid 1780?s an emerging United States had wanted them out.
		Reopened in 1951 as Grand Portage National Historic Site and designated a National Monument in 1958, its nearly 710 acres lying entirely within the boundaries of Grand Portage Indian Reservation, the reconstructed depot celebrates fur trade and Ojibwe lifeways.
		To reach Grand Portage, Minnesota, private ground transportation is recommmended either by private or rental vehicle.
	www.recreation.gov /detail.cfm?ID=2737 (387 words)

	Grand Portage National Monument - Grand Portage National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		For over 400 years Ojibwe families of Grand Portage have tapped maples every spring on a ridge located just off Lake Superior.
		From 1778 until 1802, welcomed by the Grand Portage Ojibwe, the North West Company located their headquarters and western supply depot here for business and a summer rendezvous.
		Travel the path of the famed voyageurs by walking part or all of the 8 1/2 mile Grand Portage from Lake Superior to the Pigeon River.
	www.nps.gov /grpo (406 words)

	Grand Portage State Park: Minnesota DNR
		This trail became known as "The Grand Portage." Today, visitors of all abilities can take a one-half mile trail and boardwalk to the falls overlook area.
		The park lies within the Grand Portage Indian Reservation and is bordered by Canada on the north and east.
		Birders:Click Here for the Bird Checklist at Grand Portage State Park.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /state_parks/grand_portage/index.html (315 words)

	Grand Portage Band
		The creek is the only Minnesota Lake Superior tributary stream not blocked by a waterfall near Lake Superior and its restoration is particularly important for the regional fishery.
		Successful completion of the project was the result of several years of partnership efforts by the Grand Portage Natural Resources Department, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
		Grand Portage Creek is a fine stream and offers excellent angling as well as being a historical treasure.
	www.fws.gov /midwest/Tribal/GrandPortage.html (649 words)

	Grand Portage National Monument - Facilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Northeastern Minnesota’s “Tip of the Arrowhead” within Grand Portage Indian Reservation, Grand Portage village, Cook County, Minnesota.
		Grand Portage National Monument is about 150 miles northeast of Duluth, Minnesota and 50 miles southwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada along the beautiful north shore of Lake Superior ½ to 1 mile south of Minnesota State Highway 61.
		The Rendezvous at Grand Portage National Monument is presented for the purpose of re-creating and interpreting the annual fur trade rendezvous held during the 1700s and early 1800s.
	www.nps.gov /grpo/pphtml/facilities.html (349 words)

	Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota
		Grand Portage National Monument was established to commemorate and preserve a premier site and route of the 18th century fur trade that led to pioneering international commerce and exploration in North America, as well as cultural contact between Ojibwe and other Native societies and the North West Company partners, clerks and canoe-men.
		Grand Portage National Monument contains the archeological remains of several fur trading posts instrumental in the exploration of the West and the economic history of the United States and Canada.
		Fort Charlotte can be reached by hiking eight and one-half miles from the historic stockade along the Grand Portage or four miles from the crossing at Old Highway 61(monument map viewable in 'inDepth').
	www.hikercentral.com /parks/grpo (1658 words)

	Grand Portage Passage Sled Dog Race
		Before the time of European settlers, and boundaries between the United States and Canda, the people of Grand Portage traveled inland away from Lake Superior during the winter months in pursuit of their wild game food supply.
		It is this "passage" from summer to winter camps that the people of Grand Portage wish to remember and preserve in history.
		Grand Portage National Monument is located approximately 1 mile east of the Grand Portage Lodge and Casino on Mile Creek Rd. All activities will take place outdoors or in buildings heated only by a fire.
	www.northshorevisitor.com /winter/passage.html (856 words)

	Driving Tours & Walking in Minnesota & Grand Portage - Central: Into the Woods: North Shore Drive, Minnesota
		The rocky North Shore, the product of volcanic flow and glacial ice, is the Minnesota side of the world's largest freshwater lake.
		From the resort town/artist colony of Grand Marais, hikers, dogsledders, and cross-country skiers can hit the Gunflint Trail, a gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
		Grand Portage, the last town before the Canadian border and the hub of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fur trade, was so named for the 8.5 mile trek voyageurs and Indians had to make between Lake Superior and Fort Charlotte.
	away.com /tripideas/superior-national-forest-driving-tours-300650.html (503 words)

	grand portage lodge and casino in minnesota home page on minnesota gaming directory
		Perched at the very tip of Minnesota's Arrowhead Country along the famous Lake Superior North Shore, Grand Portage and the area around it may well be the most intriguing and picturesque in all of Minnesota.
		Eagle Mountain is the state's highest point, and the High Falls on the Pigeon River in the recently opened Grand Portage State Park is Minnesota's highest and most spectacular waterfall.
		Grand Portage National Monument, a fully restored Trading Post, provides visitors a glimpse of an era when Grand Portage was as active a fur trading center as any in the world.
	www.minnesotagaming.com /NewFiles/grandportagecasino.html (537 words)

	Grand Portage Lodging, Resorts & Log Cabins on Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior
		Grand Portage Lodging, Resorts and Log Cabins on Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior
		Grand Portage is located on Highway 61 about 35 miles from Grand Marais, 145 miles from Duluth and 5 miles from the Canadian border
		On Lake Superior in Hovland, 17 miles northeast of Grand Marais and 17 miles southwest of Grand Portage.
	www.northshorevisitor.com /lodging/grand-portage.html (103 words)

	Grand Portage Elementary School - Grand Portage, Minnesota - MN - school overview
		Grand Portage Elementary School - Grand Portage, Minnesota - MN - school overview
		Be the first to review Grand Portage Elementary School - tell other parents what you think.
		An opportunity for the principal at Grand Portage Elementary School to speak about curriculum, special programs, activities, goals and more.
	www.greatschools.net /modperl/browse_school/mn/1007 (202 words)

	Explore Minnesota - Grand Portage National Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Grand Portage Trail and grounds outside historic depot are open all year.
		Partially reconstructed North West Company Fur Trade headquarters and 8.5 mile Grand Portage trail; Costumed interpreters, guided programs/demonstrations, Three Sisters Native American garden, historic heirloom gardens, furnished structures, Ojibwe Culture, fur trade history, area history; historical demonstrations, cooking and baking demonstrations; historic musket firing demonstrations; and gift shop.
		Seasonal ferry service to Isle Royale is available at the Voyageur Marina in Grand Portage.
	www.exploreminnesota.com /lodging/8428.html?printview (154 words)

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