If you have ever been to the Rendezvous Days that is held at the Grand Portage National Monument you may have met re-enactor Steve Hakes and his display of Voyageur Trade Goods. Steve will be on site at Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center this weekend. .
This presentation includes information on the life cycle, migration, and habitat needs of the Monarch butterfly. Also, ways to help the Monarch population recover. Tom Uecker, is a retired teacher who began each new school year raising and releasing the last generation of the Monarch butterfly for that year. He now gives presentations aimed at […]
Dark Sky Caravan 2021 is coming to Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center. Have you ever wondered what truly dark skies look like? In Minnesota, up the Gunflint Trail, there are some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi river. In collaboration with Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium , an AllSky camera is capturing these stunning […]
Whether your ancestors are Scandinavian or Ojibwe, life along the North Shore was never easy. In the late 1930's when the local economy shifted from extractive industry to tourism, the Anishinaabe people living at Grand Marais and on the Gunflint Trail adapted to the times, relying on trapping, fishing, guiding, picking berries and making souvenirs […]
John will share the geologic history of the area located around the end of the trail, from 2.6 billion year old Archean granites to the Pleistocene glacial epoch (Magnetic Rock). John is a Minnesota native, he taught at Macalester College for 32 years, traveled the world researching geology, and has now retired to the […]
John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater — a Metis and Anishinaabe couple— lived most of their adult lives on Basswood Lake. Tchi-Ki-Wis was a Lac La Croix Band member and related to many Border Lakes Anishinaabe people might know such as the Powells and Caribou family at Grand Portage and Lac La Croix. John was Metis, of […]