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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		The Water Walker: Josephine Mandamin
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:33
	Publish Date:		2019-03-04 05:00:00
	Description:		Have you heard of the water walkers? Neither had the Masked Biologist, as he shares in this week’s Wildlife Matters . The first time I heard of the water walkers was after Josephine Mandamin’s last walk. Josephine is a respected Anishinaabe elder from Canada who began walking around Lake Superior in 2003 to raise awareness and to pray for the water. She carried in her hands a copper pail that contained lake water. When she took a break, she would lie on her stomach embracing mother earth. Then she would resume her journey. That is no small task; in terms of surface area, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world. The shoreline is well over 2,500 miles, and that is if she just walked the shoreline and didn’t have to swing wide to walk on roads or trails, which she certainly must have done. If you started walking Northwest from Rhinelander and walked for the same distance she walked, you could reach Juneau Alaska. Grandmother Josephine wanted to call attention to the need
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