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The Ways: Lake Superior Whitefish: Carrying on a Family Tradition

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Producer: 
Finn Ryan
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2013

The Ways: Lake Superior Whitefish: Carrying on a Family Tradition

The Ways: Lake Superior Whitefish: Carrying on a Family Tradition
The Ways: Lake Superior Whitefish: Carrying on a Family Tradition

The Petersons are part of a long tradition of commercial fishing among Lake Superior tribes. Avid fishermen for subsistence prior to European settlement, the Lake Superior Chippewa quickly found Gichigami’s (Ojibwe word for Lake Superior) fish to be a valued trade item once explorers penetrated to this inland sea. Tribal fishermen traded fish harvested from birch bark canoes, using gill nets made from twisted and knotted strips of willow bark...

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Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
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Environment and Natural Resources, Small Business

Ryan, Finn. "Lake Superior Whitefish: Carry on a Family Tradition." The Ways: Great Lakes Native Culture & Language. Wisconsin Media Lab. Madison, Wisconsin. 2013. (http://theways.org/story/lake-superior-whitefish, accessed March 1, 2013)

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