Roseau River, Manitoba

1,491 miles

At my stopping point for today, the highway crosses over the Roseau River.  This is a 214-mile-long (344 km) tributary of the Red River of the North, which flows through northwestern Minnesota and southern Manitoba.  After the Roseau River joins the Red River, they flow together into Lake Winnipeg, down the Nelson River, and into Hudson Bay.

This river flows through the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation.  I found this description of the tribe’s location interesting in the way it uses a traditional perspective and also clarifies for outsiders with the use of modern national terminology.  “ Roseau River is an Anishinabe-Nation community located in Anishinabe territory, also known as Treaty 1 territory.  This area is also now known as southern Manitoba, just north of the United States-Canada border.”

river image:  Google Street Views
First Peoples Development, Inc.: http://www.fpdinc.ca/ROSEAURIVERFIRSTNATION#/ROSEAURIVERFIRSTNATION/