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Vennum on rice camp wigwams

Such [rice] camps were easily recognized outside of ricing season by the skeletal substructures of wigwams. People could select new sites as long as they did not infringe on previously established campgrounds.
from
Thomas Vennum, Jr., Wild Rice and the Ojibway People (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988) 162-163.