The Four Directions
In Ojibwe ways, the four directions comprise the medicine wheel in which all of life’s cycles—sadness and joy, life and death—are one. There is life in death, and death in life. Beauty itself resides within the balance of the whole circle.
Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota May 1994
Unknown to the men who ordered the removal of the Indian graveyard on the Village of Park Point in 1860, but foretold by an Indian doctor at the time of the first carnival, the Ojibwe Indians’ bones began returning to the shores of their spiritual home on Onigamiinsing, the spit of land the French named Minnesota Point. The digging of the channel, which severed the strip of land so that ships could pass into the harbor, along with the rerouting of part of the river that altered the flow o
