My grandfather's name was John Wagamese. Our family name, Wagamese, comes from an Ojibway phrase meaning 'man walking by the crooked water.' It was shortened by the treaty registrar because Wagamese was all he could pronounce, but it came from the trapline my great-great-grandfather established along the Winnipeg River. The same one my grandfather walked all his life....
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