Ojibwe-Sioux Conflict for Upper Mississippi Basin

In the late 1600s the headwaters of the Mississippi was a forested land of lakes and streams, teaming with game; the home of the powerful Dakota branch of the Western Sioux nation. But it was not to last; another force, the Ojibwe, an Algonquin tribe, were on the move westward along the shores of Lake Superior. In the late 1600s these two powerful tribes met. And so it began; a conflict not finally settled until the white man imposed its final solution in the late 1800s.

The author's interest in the Indian culture developed early. Growing up in a small northern Minnesota town adjacent to an Ojibwe reservation, the author obtained an engineering degree from the University of Minnesota, and after a short army tour spent the next 32 years in the computer industry; largely in the Minneapolis area. Following retirement, for his own entertainment he began to delve into that 'fog-shrouded' period when the Ojibwe first arrived in Minnesota; the result is this story of the Ojibwe-Dakota conflict for control of the Mississippi headwaters, told in a mixture of history, legend, and historical fiction.