Great Lakes Waterway River between Huron and Erie. Usually, one or more U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers help keep the water passage open for part of the fall and early winter, although shipping usually ceases for two to three months thereafter. The Great Lakes Waterway is co-administered by the governments of Canada and the United States of America. The waterway allows passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the inland port of Duluth on Lake Superior, a distance of and to Chicago, on Lake Michigan, at . Together with the Saint Lawrence Seaway, the Waterway allows both ocean-going vessels and the ore, grain and coal-bearing
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa new pipeline in exchange for a $260,000,000 Cash Settlement with the company. Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (or "Wayekwaa-gichigamiing Gichigamiwininiwag" in the Ojibwe language, meaning "Lake Superior Men at the far end of the Great Lake") is an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) band located near Cloquet, Minnesota. Their land-base is the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation (Ojibwe language: "Nagaajiwanaang"), located mainly in Carlton and Saint Louis County, Minnesota, 20 miles west of Duluth. They are one of six bands who comprise the federally recognized Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, which was organized in