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====Gichi-Ode' Akiing==== Just off the Lakewalk is a park named Gichi-Ode' Akiing; the name is Ojibwe for "a grand heart place".<ref>{{Cite news |last=News Tribune |date=May 30, 2019 |title=Ceremony Friday to rename Lake Place Park as Gichi-ode' Akiing |work=Duluth News Tribune |publisher=Duluth News Tribune and Forum Communications Company |url=https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/incoming/1354590-Ceremony-Friday-to-rename-Lake-Place-Park-as-Gichi-ode%E2%80%99-Akiing |url-status=live |access-date=April 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308130812/https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/incoming/1354590-Ceremony-Friday-to-rename-Lake-Place-Park-as-Gichi-ode%E2%80%99-Akiing |archive-date=March 8, 2021}}</ref> The [[Duluth City Council]] approved the name change from Lake Place Park in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kraker, Dan |date=June 1, 2019 |title=Duluth renames city park in the Ojibwe language |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/06/01/duluth-renames-city-park-ojibwe-language |url-status=live |access-date=April 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305200957/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/06/01/duluth-renames-city-park-ojibwe-language |archive-date=March 5, 2020}}</ref> A memorial to [[Kechewaishke]], also known as Chief Buffalo, honors his symbolic petition carried to president [[Millard Fillmore]] in 1849.<ref name="WIHS">{{Cite web |date=December 2003 |title=Symbolic Petition of the Chippewa Chiefs |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM1871 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927134605/https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM1871 |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |access-date=April 4, 2020 |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society}}</ref> Kechewaishke signed the [[Treaty of La Pointe#1854 Treaty of La Pointe|1854 Treaty of La Pointe]] a year before his death, with the provision that {{convert|1|sqmi|km2|spell=in}} of land at the corner of Lake Superior be given to his adopted son [[Benjamin G. Armstrong]].<ref name="Justia">{{Cite web |date=March 2, 1885 |title=Prentice v. Stearns, 113 U.S. 435 (1885) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/113/435/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927020225/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/113/435/ |archive-date=September 27, 2020 |access-date=April 3, 2020 |publisher=Justia}}</ref> Known as the Buffalo Tract, Armstrong's land comprised part of today's downtown Duluth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gichi-Ode' Akiing (Lake Place Park) |url=https://duluthmn.gov/parks/parks-listing/lake-place-park/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017064059/https://duluthmn.gov/parks/parks-listing/lake-place-park/ |archive-date=October 17, 2020 |access-date=April 3, 2020 |publisher=City of Duluth}}</ref>
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