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Grand Portage National MonumentGrand Portage headstart learns how to harvest wild rice using rice knockers.
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Drawing by C.W. Jefferys of David Thompson in Athabaska Pass 1810.  

Did You Know?
The great geographer David Thompson mapped most of Canada and the northern U.S. west of Grand Portage (1794-1821) a tribute to the exploratory achievements of the Nor’westers.

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