Blrdseye view of Warroad, Minnesota. 



know as Warroad, Minn., following the sand ridges and dunes 

 through the swamps. Warroad, Minn., thus gets its name. It 

 was over this same path that the Sioux who killed La Veren- 

 drye and his party came. 



About 130 years ago a part of Ojibaway Indians set out on 

 a hunting expedition to the prairie. A band of wandering 

 Sioux bent on pillage and plunder found their unprotected 

 village. Every man, woman and child was killed by the ma- 

 rauders except one old man who crawled into the underbrush. 

 The Ojibaways returning from the hunt found the ruins still 

 burning and the victims still warm. The old man who had 

 escaped directed them which way the enemy had gone and 

 the Ojibaways bent on revenge and frenzied with the dread- 

 ful calamity, rushed to form an ambush on a narrow inlet 

 where the victorious Sioux must pass. The latter came along, 

 as the story goes, drunk with success, paddling and singing 

 of their prowess and the wonderful deeds of their illustrious 

 fathers. As they reached the middle of the inlet the Ojiba- 

 ways let fly a shower of arrows and not one of their enemies 

 escaped. The Ojiboways have called this pass since, "Quen- 

 nep-a-scar" or "The overturning of the canoes." 



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