Cloquet author pens memoir about life on Fond du Lac Reservation

Cloquet author pens memoir about life on Fond du Lac Reservation

CLOQUET — After moving to Duluth at 5 years old, Janis Fairbanks kept trying to run away to her old home in Bena. She didn’t like the city and missed her old log cabin surrounded by wildflowers on the Leech Lake Reservation. As a compromise for attending class, Fairbanks’ parents told her she would be able to spend her summers with her grandmother on the Fond du Lac Reservation. There, her grandmother would tell her stories of when the thunder c…