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Grand Portage National MonumentA wood fire glows in a clay Quebec oven outside the kitchen.
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Grand Portage National Monument
History & Culture
 
The Three Sisters Garden in the Ojibwe Village is built upon raised beds.
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The Historic Gardens at Grand Portage includes the Three Sisters Garden in the Monument's Ojibwe Village.
History and culture at Grand Portage have been intertwined and stratified  for thousand's of years.  This section contains people, places, stories and collection information relevant to this unique site.
The Gap - along the Grand Portage.  

Did You Know?
The Grand Portage goes through a gap in the hills formed by more rapid weathering along bed-rock shattered through movement along a crack named the Grand Portage-Poplar Creek fault by geologists.
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Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:22 EST