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Duluth's name in Ojibwe is " Onigamiinsing "(" at the pungent lake ") because of the odors of decaying vegetable matter that often waft up from the waters of Lake Superior in the summer.

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 the present city of La Pointe, Wisconsin.