- By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
- By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
- Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
- Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
- Dark behind it rose the forest,
- Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
- Rose the firs with cones upon them;
- Bright before it beat the water,
- Beat the clear and sunny water,
- Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
The
Ojibwe call Lake Superior,
Gichigami, meaning "big water."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the name as "Gitche Gumee" in
The Song of Hiawatha written in 1855
Who would have ever guessed our journey back into time, here at Grand Portage, would have made such on impact on us.
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