Appearing to grow out of bare rock along the Lake Superior shoreline east of Grand Portage is a sentinel-like small gnarled tree with twisted branches. Known as the Spirit Little Cedar Tree—Manidoo-giizhikens (various spellings) is the Ojibwe name, while others have called it The Witch Tree—it is held sacred by......

More than just a healthy alternative to beef Known as “manoomin,” wild rice was central to the lives of the Anishinaabe. Each fall, families would travel to their ricing grounds. Their stores of rice, along with dried meat and berries, were essential to survival during the lean winter months. Wild......

Every spring, along a stretch of the Black Sturgeon River northeast of Thunder Bay, it gets crowded. As spring water temperatures rise, schools of fish funnel into the river’s mouth at Lake Superior’s Black Bay to make their annual pilgrimage up this inland waterway. For 16 kilometres the fish migrate......

Growing up in northern Ontario, bugs were always part of the furniture. You could not go fishing or camping without the very strong possibility of mosquitoes, blackflies, sandflies and God knows what else snacking on your blood. Dealing with bugs makes for good stories, even if they are not always......