For many, summertime activities such as boating and swimming are first to mind when visiting Big Sandy Lake near McGregor in northern Minnesota. However, to several generations of Ojibwe people, the shoreline of the lake is described as a “graveyard.”
Every year on the last Wednesday of July, Native communities and allies from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan gather for the annual Sandy Lake Memorial, a ceremony also called Mikwendaagoziwag.
In the Ojibwe language, Mikwendaagoziwag means “they are remembered.” The day honors what is now known as the Sandy Lake Tragedy, an event that led to the deaths of more than 400 Ojibwe tribal members in the winter of 1850-51.
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