Border Lakes Dialect (Ojibwe)

The Border Lakes Dialect of the Ojibwe or Anishinaabemowin language is one of the five southern dialect groups of the Anishinaabemowin language. In the setting of 'Merganser,' it is stigmatized and its speakers are seen as barely-civilized descendants of the Plains Ojibwe (while this linguistic connection is supported by real-world research, the relationship is probably reversed).

Speaking Area
Most Border Lakes dialect speakers live in the Lake of the Woods basin. Most of their settlements are along the Rainy River, the Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake and surrounding rivers. In terms of iron, they control the Vermilion Range, a third of the Gunflint Range and the northern sixth of the Mesabi Range.