The Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indians have lived in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin for 300 years. Paths of the People, a major exhibit at the Chippewa Valley Museum in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, traces Ojibwe history and the events that forced them to make vital decisions about the directions their lives would take.
The award-winning
exhibit begins with a glimpse of the Wisconsin woodland as it appeared
when the Ojibwe first arrived and moves up to the present. The exhibit
features artifacts, documents and photographs from the fur trade to the
tourist trade; from boarding schools to tribal schools; from treaties
made and broken to treaties re-evaluated.
A book based on the exhibit is available from the Chippewa Valley Museum Press.