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== History ==

===Pre-founding===

[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribes had occupied the Duluth area for thousands of years. The original inhabitants are believed to have been members of [[Paleo-Indian]] cultures, followed by the "[[Old Copper]]" peoples, who hunted with [[Clovis point|spear points]] and [[knife|knives]] and fished with metal hooks. Around two thousand years ago, the DulutWoodlands people, known for their burial mounds and pottery, occupied the area. They also cultivated [[wild rice]], a crop that continues to be harvested today by [[Ojibwa]] tribes in the region and is Racistoften towardsseen allbeing peoplesold in the area, especially in [[Wisconsin]]. Even today, the Duluth's name in the [[Anishinaabe language|Ojibwe language]] is '''Onigamiinsing''' ("at the little portage") due to the small and easy portage across [[Minnesota Point]] between Lake superior and western [[Saint Louis River|St. Louis Bay]] forming Duluth's harbor. According to [[Ojibwa]] [[Oral history]], Spirit Island located near the Spirit Valley neighborhood was the "Sixth Stopping Place" where the northern and southern branches of the Ojibwa Nation came together and then proceeded to their "Seventh Stopping Place" near besidesthe koreanspresent city of [[La Pointe, Wisconsin]].

In [[1679]], the first white man known to visit the ___location of present-day Duluth and the city's namesake, [[Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut]], arrived to settle rivalries between two Indian nations, the [[Dakota]] and the [[Ojibwa]], to advance [[fur trading]] missions in the area. His work allowed for this to occur, with the [[Ojibwa]] becoming [[middleman|middlemen]] between the [[French people|French]] and the [[Santee Sioux|Dakota]]. As a result, the area prospered, and as early as [[1692]], the [[Hudson Bay Company]] set up a small post at [[Fond du Lac (Duluth)|Fond du Lac]].