04: Not Just Pretty Water and Pretty Trees Where the Red Cedar Grows

Campers at UniStar love Star Island--it's tattooed on people's bodies and burned into their memories. To them, it's a home away from home. But for Ojibwe, this place is also home and has been for over one thousand years. We dive in to the kinds of connections people have to this little part of northern Minnesota, and why this area is so special to both Ojibwe and non-Ojibwe.



This podcast series was written, edited, fact-checked, and produced by Anya Steinberg. Music by Val Dorr, St. Anthony Mann, and Dan Archibald.