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- Updated: Nov. 04, 2025, 8:23 a.m.
- Published: Nov. 04, 2025, 7:45 a.m.
As the Edmund Fitzgerald was barreling toward disaster on the morning of Nov. 10, 1975, a small group of Native American fishermen set out in their 16-foot long fishing boats to gather their nets in Whitefish Bay.
They would soon be fighting for their lives.
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