I grew up on its shores
my favorite place:
Gitche Gumee
Before Lake Superior was given the name "Lake Superior" and long before the first settlements appeared, the Ojibwe gave the largest of the Great Lakes the name "gichi-gami"; a loose translation of the name means "great sea."
Because early history was less about the printed word and more about audible use, there are some other slight variations on the name and on its eventual use. Some sources detail that the Ojibwe used the phrase "Ojibwe Gichigami" - which is translated as "Ojibwe's Great Sea" - for the lake that became Superior. There are also sources that cite its early name as "Anishinaabe Gichigami" - which would translate to "Anishinaabe's Great Sea".
Whichever of these initial uses and variations is most-accurate, it's understood that the most-recognized "official" written form of the name came when Father Frederic Baraga published the first printed dictionary for the Ojibway language in 1878; in that publication, the name for the lake was "Otchipwe-kitchi-gami" - which was a "transliteration of Ojibwe Gichigami".
Lake Superior
Obviously, the body of water that's become known as Lake Superior was around a lot longer than when man first discovered it. Geologists point to it's origins as part of the "North American Mid-Continent Rift" that occurred "1.1 to 1.2 billion years ago". That rift "produced a huge plume of hot mantle where the present lake sits. The crust tore apart, leaving an arc-shaped scar stretching form (sic) Kansas through Minnesota, then down to Michigan".
The "discovery" of the body of water came at some point in the 17th century. That's when "French explorers approached the great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron". Those French explorers referred to their "discovery" as "le lac superieur" - which means translates to "the upper lake" - referring to its geographic location to Lake Huron, which has been "discovered" already.
For a brief period of time after the "le lac Superieur" nomenclature was applied, 17th-century Jesuit missionaries called the body of water "Lac Tracy" - for Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy - a French aristocrat and military leader.
It was finally in the 1760's that the first use of "Lake Superior" was recorded. After the British took control of the body of water from the French, they "anglicized the lake's name to Superior" - "on account of it being superior in magnitude to any of the lakes on that vast continent [of North America]".
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| The Ojibwe called the miners THE COPPER PEOPLE, or Light Skinned People = Cretan-Minoan |
Book Description:
Was there sustained travel and trade between Europe and North America, back at the dawn of America's history, 4500 years ago? How did the peopling of the Americas really happen?
In this controversy, the ancient copper mines of Lake Superior (Kitchi-Gummi) have become an undeniable piece of hard evidence. There have been several books written about the tremendous amounts of pure copper that was set free by the glaciers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Isle Royal. There is undeniable proof of the mining and gathering of that copper in the distant past. Some researchers have flatly stated that whatever the amount mined, some of it had to have gone elsewhere. There simply seems to be no end (destination) of a copper trade on this continent. Many of you, local history buffs, students of ancient American history, anthropology, archaeology, and Native American studies, may have never heard of the ancient copper mines on Lake Superior. But for those who do know of them, the question was always there.
Who dug approximately 5,000 copper mines 4500 years ago on Lake Superior's Isle Royale and adjoining areas?
Why did they do it, and where is the copper now? How could 20 to 50 million pounds of copper be removed from this area in such a fashion, that it literally seems to have vanished. Who did the work and where did the copper go?
It is significant that in the solving of this ancient puzzle, if Mediterranean area traders were involved, the accepted paradigm of the peopling of America must be changed. This book weighs in on this controversy. It does this in a straight-forward fashion. A simple case study of how these ancient mines came into existence, and the repercussions of the answer. The question of Diffusionism or Parallel Invention must at last be dealt with. This book, is part of your Ancient North American History, a subject that is as yet, in my opinion, not being taught.
Minoan mining the UP Michigan? (I am researching this now)
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