What do the natives call Lake Superior?

The Chippewa people named Lake Superior Gitche Gumee or Ojibwe Gichigami, The Ojibwe's Great Sea. Lake Superior was an important part of the fur trading relationship between the Native people and the French fur traders. Lake Superior has been and will always be an important link in our Great Lakes Waterway.



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