Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods

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Join me for a weekly glimpse into researching why the great-grandchildren of Kakaygeesick, were dispossessed of their ancestral homeland and what that has to do with me, a white woman whose great-grandparents homesteaded on Lake of the Woods.

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About Jill Swenson

Writer. Editor. Mostly narrative nonfiction.

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