Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods
Jill SwensonJoin me for a weekly glimpse into the history of this place where my great-grandparents homesteaded on Ojibway land near Lake of the Woods on the Canadian border.
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Chapter 1
The Land of Everlasting Sky
I stood there waiting in the gravel driveway, kicking dirt into dust clouds, surrounded by flat open fields six miles south of the Canadian border. Summer vacation with Mom’s side of the family felt like an esca...
When Kakaygeesick died, Gerald Vizenor wrote about the funeral for The Minneapolis Tribune
When Kakaygeesick died in 1968, The Minneapolis Tribune had a front page story about the funeral in Warroad. The journalist who wrote the story was Gerald Vizenor.
A young Anishinaabe scholar and author, Vizenor had been hired as a staff w...
Need a little help from my friends
For more than a decade I have researched the history of Kakaygeesick, an Ojibway medicine man, how his descendants were forced off his land in 2012 to build a new casino in Warroad, Minnesota, and what that had to do with me, the great-gran...
What I learned from great-grandfather's homestead application about Minnesota's history of salt springs and gold mines
On the northern edge of the old Kling homestead, July 2025
Two affidavits accompanied my great-grandfather’s homestead application.
When I first read them in his file from the Bureau of Land Management, I didn’t have enough context to und...
Kakaygeesick means"Everlasting Sky"
Dusk, looking west from Warroad, Minnesota, July 2024
When I am in northern Minnesota along the Canadian border near Lake of the Woods, the sky seems so big. It makes me feel like a tiny speck in the universe. Perhaps it’s because the land...
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Author of forthcoming THE LAND OF EVERLASTING SKY: A MEMOIR OF LOSS AND LEGACY ON LAKE OF THE WOODS (June 2026 from She Writes Press)
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