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The voyageur is an American icon, but few individual voyageurs’ names have been consigned to history. One name, however, appears in several accounts: Bonga.
George Bonga was an advocate for fur traders and Native Americans throughout Minnesota
Of his arrival in Leech Lake in the early 1800s, George Bonga, a successful trapper and guide, described himself as "one of the first two white men that ever came into this [region]."...