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Items for sale and trade inside Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1935.
Boat works at Mille Lacs Trading Post, Mille Lacs Lake, March 1931. Boat works at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation, 1931.
Aerial view of Mille Lacs Trading Post at Vineland Bay, Mille Lacs Lake, circa 1930
O-gee-tup standing with Harry and Jeanette Ayer at Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1920.
Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1920
Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1920.
Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, ca. 1915.
Me-gee-see, Dick Gahbowh, and John Mitchell at Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, ca. 1915.
Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, ca. 1929.
Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post debuted its services as a general store for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in 1918. In future decades, it evolved into a center for local Ojibwe to trade and sell their art and educate visitors about Ojibwe culture.