Brian JopekFeb 26, 2023
Another winter sunrise shot, this one at the Duluth Ship Canal South Breakwater Outer Light on Lake Superior. Photo by Brian T. Imagery.
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Brian JopekFeb 4, 2023
Frigid air creates billowing sea on a snowy Lake Superior shoreline, 3 February, 2023. Photo courtesy of Ken Harmon Photography.
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Show threadAndy_Rogers πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Jan 5, 2023

@zhivi
So fascinating.

"Michigama" got me thinking about "Gitche Gumee" (which is "Lake Superior" in my colonizer language).

"gichi-gami" is the Ojibwe name and it means "great sea."

"Gitche(e) Gumee" is referenced both in the song "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot and "Song of Hiawatha" By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Thank you for the history lesson. I appreciate it very much.

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