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Title card for The Ways episode "Deep Snow Camp: Ice Fishing and Subsistence Harvest," photographed from beneath the ice looking up through a freshly drilled hole. An ice chisel penetrates the surface from above, surrounded by shattered ice and churning bubbles, with green lake water visible below. Text is rendered in white bold type with small orange and blue diamond decorative elements.

The Ways, Deep Snow Camp: Ice Fishing and Subsistence Harvest

Chris McGeshick of the Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) talks about Deep Snow ...

Ojibwe

Grades 6-12

Person stirring pot outdoors; text reads “Raising the Grain” and “Field Notes on Climate” about wild rice habitats.

Field Notes on Climate: Wild Rice

Wild rice, known as manoomin in the Anishinaabe language, plays an important ecological role and holds deep cultural ...

Ojibwe

Grades 6-12

Smiling person with glasses beside text “HISTORY FORGED IN COPPER?” and “The Look Back,” with copper tools and forging scene.

The Look Back: Indigenous Copper Technology in the Western Great Lakes

Native peoples in the area that is now Wisconsin have some of the oldest copperworking traditions in the ...

Stockbridge-Munsee Oneida Brothertown Ho-Chunk Ojibwe Menominee Potawatomi

Grades 4-6

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American Indian Nations of Wisconsin

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Brothertown Nation*

(not federally recognized)

Forest County Potawatomi

Ho-Chunk Nation

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin

Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)

St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin

Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians

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