by La Compagnie | Sep 23, 2017 | La Compagnie Blog
Readers who are familiar with early 19th century Ojibwe history are likely to recognize the name of John Tanner, the white child who was captured and raised by Indians and who became an adult within communities of Ojibwe of the Lake Superior and American-British...
by La Compagnie | Jan 28, 2017 | La Compagnie Blog
This is my latest brainstorm about the differences in interpreting the fur trade at Dakota sites versus the fur trade at Ojibwe sites. In other words, what’s the story, and how is it different, depending on where we are interpreting; for example, at the...
by MelissaP | Oct 20, 2016 | La Compagnie Blog
The third weekend in September is the annual Fall Gathering at the North West Company Fur Post in Pine City, MN. We had excellent representation from La Compagnie. We had twelve tents set up by the Snake River, with over 20 members present, most staying at the camp...
by MelissaP | Mar 19, 2016 | La Compagnie Blog
Winter was giving way to spring as more than a dozen members of La Compagnie gathered in Minneapolis for a moccasin making workshop. Since many of our events take place in traditional Ojibwe country and some of our members wear this style for work, we opted to make...
by La Compagnie | Oct 17, 2015 | La Compagnie Blog
Thousands of years ago, according to oral histories, the Anishinaabeg, or Ojibwe, followed a shell in the sky from the great waters of the East to “the place where the food grows on the water.” That food was wild rice, the only grain indigenous to North...
