Editing Duluth, Minnesota (section)

===Native history===
[[File:Ojibwe-women-canoe-St Louis River.jpg|thumb|left|upright|alt=Three or four dark haired women near the shore in a canoe|[[Ojibwe]] women on the [[Saint Louis River (Lake Superior tributary)|St. Louis River]], date unknown]]

The [[Ojibwe]] occupied a historic settlement at ''Onigamiinsing'' ("at the little portage"), the [[portage]] across Minnesota Point between Lake Superior and western St. Louis Bay, which forms Duluth's harbor.<ref name="Ojibwe People's Dictionary">{{Cite web |title=Owjibwe People's Dictionary |url=http://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/en/main-entry/onigamiinsing-name-place |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809043007/http://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/en/main-entry/onigamiinsing-name-place |archive-date=August 9, 2016 |access-date=June 14, 2016}}</ref> For both the Ojibwe and the Dakota, interaction with Europeans during the contact period revolved around the [[fur trade]] and related activities.

According to Ojibwe [[oral tradition|oral history]], Spirit Island, near the [[Spirit Valley (Duluth)|Spirit Valley]] neighborhood, was the "Sixth Stopping Place" where the northern and southern branches of the Ojibwe Nation came together and proceeded to their "Seventh Stopping Place" near the present city of [[La Pointe, Wisconsin]]. The "Stopping Places" were places the Native Americans occupied during their westward migration as the Europeans overran their territory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Duluth MN Facts |url=http://duluthtreeservices.com/city_info.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909031157/http://duluthtreeservices.com/city_info.html |archive-date=September 9, 2013}}</ref>