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FrontCoverDesign_Layout 1 3/3/15 1:53 PM Page 1 Official Guide to Native American Communities in Wisconsin www.NativeWisconsin.com page 2_Layout 1 3/3/15 9:18 AM Page 1 Shekoli (Hello), elcome to Native Wisconsin! We are pleased to once again provide you with our much anticipated NATIVE WISCONSIN MAGAZINE! WAs always, you will find key information regarding the 11 sovereign tribes in the great State of Wisconsin. From history and culture to current events and new amenities, Native Wisconsin is the unique experience visitors are always looking for. As our tribal communities across WI continue to expand and improve, we want to keep you informed on what’s going on and what’s in store for the future. With a new vision in place, we plan to assist each and every beautiful reservation to both improve what is there, and to create new ideas to work toward. Beyond their current amenities, which continue to expand, we must diversify tribal tourism and provide new things to see, smell, touch, taste, and hear. Festivals, culinary arts, song and dance, storytelling, Lacrosse, new tribal visitor centers, even a true hands on Native Wisconsin experience! These are just a few of the elements we want to provide to not only give current visitors what they’ve been waiting for, but to entice new visitors to come see us. We are always looking to our visitors for input, so please let us know how you would like to experience NATIVE WISCONSIN in the future, and we will make it happen for you. We are looking forward to 2015 and beyond. With the return of this magazine, a new website, our annual conference in Mole Lake, and a new online TV show in development, things are getting exciting for all of us. As Native Wisconsin, we not only wish to share our story, but to also hear them from our neighbors across the state. Tribes have had cultural exchanges for hundreds of years and we do not plan to stop anytime soon. There are numerous creative, fun, and inspiring ways we can continue this beautiful tradition. Let’s get together soon! Each of these 11 tribal communities has state of the art lodging accommoda- tions, gaming entertainment, and many other ways to get out and enjoy a unique cultural experience that you will not find anywhere else! We welcome you to Native Wisconsin; come visit us anytime. Yaw^ko okhale Sawehnisliyohak (Thank you and have a great day) Ernest L. Stevens III Executive Director Native American Tourism of Wisconsin Please visit our new website at www.nativewisconsin.com today!! Subscribe to start receiving email updates, including our new e-newsletter coming in April!! Scan the following QR codes on your mobile device to see our website, twitter, facebook, or youtube pages!! 2 page 3_Layout 1 3/3/15 9:43 AM Page 1 CONTENTS 2 Welcome Native Wisconsin 4 Cultural Sites and Visitor Guide 2015 Museums ative Wisconsin serves as the 6 Bad River Band of Lake official guide to Native American NCommunities in Wisconsin. Superior Tribe of Chippewa Here you will find information about our 7 Indian Summer Festival 11 Wisconsin Tribes and the tourism opportunities that abound within Tribal lands. 8 Forest County Potawatomi That’s right – you are able to visit Tribal Tribe lands. There are many attractions, tours and events held right on Tribal lands here in 10 Ho-Chunk Nation Wisconsin. Tourism has always been a part of Native 11 Lacrosse First Played by American history and tradition. We invite Native Americans visitors from around the world to come and get to know us. Focusing on the 12 Lac Courte Oreilles Band educational component of tourism, we invite you to read about our tribes in this visitor guide of Lake Superior Chippewa and visit our Wisconsin attractions and events. Our history is full of cultural gatherings and exchanges, trade missions and welcoming visitors from near and afar. 13 Native American Recipes There’s something for everyone in Native Wisconsin. Whether you want to learn more about our rich history and culture, purchase our unique art, indulge in our traditional foods or 14 Lac du Flambeau Band of Vegas-style gaming excitement, your experience starts right here in our new visitor guide. Lake Superior Chippewa Go ahead, make yourself right at home. 16 2015 Pow-Wows and Thank you, Special Events Joe Miller, Stockbridge-Munsee Chairman – Native American Tourism of Wisconsin 18 Menominee Nation 20 Oneida Nation 22 Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 23 You’re Invited to a Pow-Wow 24 Sokaogon (Mole Lake) Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 25 Pow-Wow Etiquette 26 St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin 28 Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans EXPLORING WISCONSIN’S NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE 30 Wisconsin Indian Casinos Wisconsin is home to the largest number of Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River. 32 Wisconsin Indian The reservations of these eleven sovereign Reservations Map nations occupy more than one half million acres of Wisconsin’s most beautiful and unique landscapes: pristine lakes, river and streams, towering forests and ancient wild rice beds, each teaming with an abundance of wildlife. Tribal art, traditions and culture are significant parts of both Indian and non-Indian communities in the state, Design, layout, project coordination by making Wisconsin a remarkable place to explore the history of Native American people. St. Paul Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com To plan your next visit to Native Wisconsin, visit Travelwisconsin.com for the latest events and more details on tribal offerings in the Badger State. 3 Museums page 4_Layout 1 3/3/15 9:45 AM Page 1 Learning From The Past NATIVE AMERICAN MUSEUMS & CULTURAL SITES IN WISCONSIN hroughout Wisconsin, Located behind the museum on Madeline Island 1802 - 1805. Today, the tour depicts numerous museums and Moh-He-Con-Nuck Road, the Wea Museum the close ties between European fur cultural sites provide a Tauk Village depicts what traditional traders and their Native American T Native American life was like for the La Pointe on Madeline Island trading partners. The park is fascinating glimpse into the Mohican People through replicas of in the Apostle Islands area in headquarters for the Burnett County history, cultures and crafts of wigwams, food drying racks, and a Lake Superior Historical Society. Native Americans. Some of the storytelling area. http://madelineisland- sites are owned by the tribes; museum.wisconsinhistory.org/ Forest County others are operated by various The main displays in this unique Potawatomi Cultural historical societies. Here are just a Milwaukee Public museum focus on the fur trade, the Center, Library and few to include in your Wisconsin Museum region’s maritime history, and the Museum area’s Native American tribes. Here travels. 800 W. Wells Street, Milwaukee you can see how the many cultures Two Miles East of Crandon, www.mpm.edu on Madeline Island co-existed. The near Hwys 8 & 32 Featuring three floors of exhibits (and exhibits are housed in two buildings www.fcpotawatomi.com Arvid E. Miller the first IMAX Theater in the state), Memorial and are owned and operated by the This fascinating facility was created to this venerable museum houses such Wisconsin Historical Society. To get pass on the culture and traditions of Library/Museum permanent exhibits as the world’s there, you will need to first reach the the “Bodewadmi” (“Keepers of the N 8510 Moh-He-Con-Nuck largest-known dinosaur, a life-size island via the Madeline Island Ferry. Fire”) to future generations and to Road, Bowler replica of Tyrannosaurus Rex, and share their history with the public. free-flying butterflies from around Forts Folle Avoine The exhibits are bilingual (English www.mohican-nsn.gov the world in the butterfly wing. A and Potawatomi) and display the Operated by the Stockbridge- fascinating permanent exhibit features Historical Park – traditions, history, heritage, culture Munsee Band of the Mohican Indians, North American Indians, including a Ojibwe Village and crafts of the Potawatomi. The the museum is the official depository scene from a modern Pow-Wow, “Wall of Treaties” exhibit showcases for the public records of the Mohican 8500 Cty Rd U, Danbury weavings and beadwork by Wisconsin reproductions of the 43 treaties the Nation/Stockbridge-Munsee Band. http://www.theforts.org/ Woodland Indians, a diorama of a tribe had with the United States. The research library contains Located along the Yellow River near buffalo hunt, porcupine quillwork, Other highlights include thousands video tapes, photographs, books, Danbury, this 80-acre wooded park weaving and a display of dozens of of reference books, historical photos manuscripts, handwritten letters, features scenic hiking trails, plus a common projectile points. A special and a gift shop. maps and much more, with the goal section in the exhibit features reconstructed trading post and Ojibwe of preserving the tribal history and Wisconsin archeology, including Village. Costumed guides provide culture. The museum features an artifacts from Aztalan, the state’s tours of the trading post and Ojibwe impressive collection of historical most significant archeological site. Village offering a glimpse of what life artifacts. The gift shop sells Indian was like in the early 1800s. The site crafts. was an active trading center from 4 Museums page 5_Layout 1 3/3/15 9:48 AM Page 1 Menominee Logging Camp Museum One mile north of Keshena, off Hwy 47 www.menominee-nsn.gov Featuring the largest collection of logging artifacts in the world, this multi-building museum includes a blacksmith shop, horse barn, bunkhouse, cook shanty, butcher’s shop, saw filer’s shack, the Bateaux vessel used for log drives, and a 1911 steam-driven locomotive engine.