Memory, Time, History on Lake of the Woods
Join me for a weekly glimpse into researching why the great-grandchildren of Kakaygeesick, were dispossessed of their ancestral homeland and what that has to do with me, a white woman whose great-grandparents homesteaded on Lake of the Woods.
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“Jill Swenson's deep dive into her own history and the history of her surroundings takes everyone who reads her work into our own history. I love her sense of time and place, her way of watching and listening to the present and past and how it makes me think about the future. ”
Rebecca Barry, Out of my Mind
“Jill is sharing a journey that I identify with. She's doing research on connections between her white family and the Native Americans who lived in the same area of northern Minnesota.”
George Shurr, Rooted--Land at the Edge of the Sky
“Jill is a talented writer, a tenacious researcher and wonderful storyteller, and brings those skills to bear on the history of Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota, a place rich with meaning for the Ojibway Indians as well as immigrant settlers. Jill's attention to detail brings the conflicts and questions to life.”
Lori Olson White, The Lost & Found Story Box