Great Regulars: As it turns out, this region's poetry

goes back much further than 150 years; Frances Densmore, with assistance from Robert Higheagle, translated song-poems of the Sioux and Chippewa.

Here's a particularly sweet love poem:

In Her Canoe

from Marianne Combs: Minnesota Public Radio: State of the Arts: Minnesota Poetry: Song-poem of the Ojibwe "In Her Canoe"

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