The area now called Portage la Prairie, Manitoba is the traditional territory of and home to various Indigenous nations including the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe, Cree, and Dakota/Sioux peoples. French explorers came in 1738.
Public History on the Prairies
Where the past is always present
The area now called Portage la Prairie, Manitoba is the traditional territory of and home to various Indigenous nations including the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe, Cree, and Dakota/Sioux peoples. French explorers came in 1738.