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State matching money needed or St. Louis River National Estuary project dies
91.3 KUWS, Duluth, MN (2/26)
The St. Louis River would be the 28th National Estuarine Research Reserve in the country and the 2nd on the Great Lakes. The reserve would bring in $550,000 in federal grants each year. To get those dollars the state needs to offer a 30% match, or about $236,000 annually.

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Which of the Great Lakes was known to Native Americans as Gitchee Gumee?
from John in Providence, Rhode Island, Age 10

Lake Superior was given the name Kitchi-gummi (or Gitchee Gumee) by the Chippewa, also known as Ojibwe, Indians that made their home on the lands surrounding the lake. The term means Great-water or Great-lake. To learn more about how the other Great Lakes got their names, visit the TEACH module What's in a Name?

See also: Native Peoples of the Great Lakes Region.

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Answered on April 23, 2001

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