Sweating Tent Walking around Long Sault on Sunday July 17, Jeremiah Johnston and Du Vernet visit “grandfather’s place," where nearby there is “sweating tent." Du Vernet describes the “sweating tent” with a keen eye and in great detail: “three willow branches bent for frame of a small tent 3 ft. …
Lake of the Woods
Lake of the Woods While Du Vernet thought the lake "well deserves its name," the Lake of the Woods' English name is likely a mistranslation of the even more precise Ojibwe name Pikwedina Sagainan, the "inland lake of the sand hills." The northern portion of the lake is full of rocky islands of …
Voyageurs of the Sudan
Voyageurs of the Sudan Born in a small Indigenous community along the Red River, at the age of twenty-four Jeremiah Johnston found himself far from home, along the sun-baked banks of the Nile. Johnston was one of many Indigenous "voyageurs" sent to the 1884 British campaign to rescue General …