The Storm Map

Where the sky was first given its thunder. Tap a marker to hear that nation's telling.

Hand-drawn crayon map of North America
Anishinaabe / Ojibwe

Anishinaabe / Ojibwe

The Great Lakes

They call them Animikii — the thunderers. Sky-spirits who wage an eternal war against the horned serpents of the underwater world. Their image was marked onto treaty documents as a clan sign: the storm itself, signing as witness.