The language atlas includes 30 individual maps depicting the Ojibwe language name for geographic place names in the 1836, 1837, and 1842, ceded territories of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The spatial extent of individual map panels was chosen to provide the most convenient representation of those named features. Therefore, there is not a constant spatial scale used in this atlas. As such, this atlas is not intended for distance calculation or navigation. Its sole purpose is to illustrate the names that native peoples of the region gave to natural features of the Great Lakes region. It is also important to note that many places or geographic features can have more than one name. For clarity and convenience, these maps illustrate only one of those names.
