Grand Portage National Monument

In 1854, the Chippewa of Lake Superior entered into a treaty with the United States whereby the Chippewa ceded to the United States ownership of their lands in northeastern Minnesota. In 1857, the artist Eastman Johnson painted two views of a Grand Portage village with recognizable land features in the background. Grand Portage archeologists hope to find evidence that this area is the first reservation village that formed after the treaty of 1854.

A summary of amphibian monitoring data (frogs and a toad) collected at Grand Portage National Monument up to 2019.

A summary of amphibian monitoring data collected in seven Great Lakes Network parks as of 2019.

Learn about an early Great Lakes traveler first made famous by his interest hot air balloons. A wealthy Italian nobleman and one of the world’s first aeronauts, Count Paolo Andreani made the first balloon ascension in Italy in March 1784. In the 1790-91 period, Andreani turned to exploration and visited the Great Lakes region, coming to Grand Portage in a birchbark canoe.

Bere is a barley that grows well in colder climates near large masses of water, its rapid growth lends itself perfectly to the long hours of sunlight and short growing season of Grand Portage summers.

A summary of results from acoustic bat monitoring conducted at Grand Portage National Monument from 2016 through 2019.

A summary of acoustic bat monitoring in Great Lakes Network parks from 2015 through 2019.

Birch canoes were an integral part of the fur trade. The technology was born of the boreal forest and developed by the Anishinaabe and other Indigenous people to navigate the area's many rivers and lakes. This is the process used for hundreds of years.