Winter is getting less reliable.
In Michigan, for example, many families could've gone sledding a few months ago on Halloween but not on Christmas when temperatures reached 60 degrees in some areas.
"Obtawaing" is the Anishinaabemowin word for "at the halfway place."
It was the name for the center of the Odawa village that used to stretch 16 miles along northern Lake Michigan, near the town of Harbor Springs and the hamlets Good Hart and Cross Village, says Frank Ettawageshik, currently the