Ojibwe

It was there, in an Ojibwe community in northern Wisconsin, that Pember’s mother, Bernice Rabideaux, was born a century ago.

Bibeau listed manoomin, Ojibwe for wild rice, as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources, arguing that the rice had rights to clean water and habitat that would be jeopardized by the pipeline and the oil spill risks it would bring.

This included reaching out to members of Ojibwe tribe, who protested the pipeline both for its environmental impact and as part of a larger history of anti-Native American genocide.

"Enbridge leaders know there's no way for them to win the hearts and minds of all the Native people but they don't have to," Anton Treuer, professor of Ojibwe language at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, told Indian Country Today.

Sea caves, historic lighthouses and beautiful scenery await, as does a chance to learn about the culture of the region’s first inhabitants, the Ojibwe.