A Water History of the Pembina Gorge - Historical Tribes and the Metis and Fur Trade

Interviews with Melanie Thornberg and Prof Virgil Benoit tell of the Chippewa/Ojibwe Indians, the mixed race Metis, Anton Gringras and his trading post, and the fur trade.
Riverwatch Project students from Walhalla studied the Pembina River and Red River watersheds, learning about the history, geology and geography of their home area. With funding from the National Science Foundation, via the International Water Institute, the students produced a video on what they had learned from the ocean that once covered the local topography through Paleo- and historical Native Americans to early settlement.

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Producer

Walhalla RiverWatch students: John Anderson, Jenise Anderson, David Carignan, Jacob Gapp, Steven Anderson, Jenna Benjaminson, Andrew Gustafson, Stephanie Hornung, Todd Reck, Tyler Lafferty, Molly Hardy

Source

“A Water History of the Pembina Gorge” 2008, Walhalla RiverWatch; Ila R. LaChapelle (Walhalla Riverwatch Advisor); Steven Wennblom (Program Manager)

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