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Pimachiowin Aki Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels

UNESCO World Heritage site in Manitoba and Ontario, Canada

About Pimachiowin Aki

Pimachiowin Aki translates toLand that gives lifein Ojibwe and is made up of the Pimachiowin Aki forms part of the ancestral home of the Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe), an indigenous people living from fishing, hunting and gathering. The site encompasses the traditional lands of four Anishinaabeg communities (Bloodvein River, Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi and Poplar River). The site is a complex network of livelihood sites, habitation sites, travel routes and ceremonial sites, often linked by waterways, providing testimony to the ancient and continuing tradition of "keeping the land". The site covers 2,904,000 ha, which makes it larger than Albania. It was listed as aUNESCO World Heritage Sitein 2018. This land was carved in the last ice age when moving glaciers scraped the surface and left behin

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