Mille Lacs Lake



................................Video of the mouth of Mille Lacs Lake's outlet river.

This sacred Dakota river flows out of Wakan/"Mille Lacs" Lake. The Dakota call this river by the sacred name for their lake [Wakan], which translated means Spirit or Great Spirit. The Dakota had a village located at this sacred site. The Dakota name for the sacred land surrounding the mouth of this river is Mdo-te-mini-wakan, pronounced Bdoh-Tay-Mni-Wah kahn, and translated as Mouth (of river) + Water + Spirit.

Picture and videos of the "Rum River".

(1.) Video of the mouth of the Wakan/"Rum" River.

This sacred Dakota river flows out of Wakan/"Mille Lacs" Lake. The Dakota call this river by the sacred name for their lake [Wakan], which translated means Spirit or Great Spirit. The Dakota had a village located at this sacred site. The Dakota name for the sacred land surrounding the mouth of this river is Mdo-te-mini-wakan, pronounced Bdoh-Tay-Mni-Wah kahn, and translated as Mouth (of river) + Water + Spirit.

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(2.) Headwaters of the Wakan/"Rum" River

Location of ancient Dakota villages

This is a picture of a stretch of the headwaters of the Wakan/"Rum" River. This area is a part of the Dakota people's traditional/ancestral Mille Lacs homeland. They had villages located along this stretch of the river.





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(3.) Site of an ancient Dakota village located on Ogechie Lake

The Wakan/"Rum" River flows through this lake.





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(4.) Wakan/"Rum" River flowing through Ogechie Lake

This picture was taken from the site of an ancient Dakota
village located on Ogechie Lake