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Oh, don't forget fishing. One of Wisconsin's designated fly-fishing-only stretches of
blue-ribbon trout waters is near Hollister.
Menominee Logging Camp Museum
The
Menominee Logging Camp Museum
(Hwy VV, north of Keshena, 715/799-3757,
9am-3pm weekdays, May 1-Oct. 15, $10 adults), at Grignon Rapids along the Wolf River
north of the Wolf at Highway VV along WIS 47, is the largest and most comprehensive ex-
hibit of timber heritage in the United States (it is also pricey). Seven hand-hewn log build-
ings and more than 20,000 artifacts re-create an early 1900s logging camp. The rustic feel
adds to the experience. Of note are the 12-to-a-bunk bunkhouse and the 1,000pairs ofoxen
shoes, not to mention a 400-year-old pine log. Call first to make sure someone is around.
Powwows
Two powwows are held annually. On (or close to) Memorial Day weekend, the
Veteran
Powwow
honorsthereservation'smilitary veterans.Largeristhe
Annual Menominee Na-
tion Contest Powwow,
held the first weekend in August. This is one of the largest cultur-
al events in the Upper Midwest. Both are held in the natural amphitheater, the Woodland
Bowl.
The Stockbridge-Munsee are an Algonquian-speaking band of the Mohican Indians. The
three tribes composing the band (along with a fourth, which eventually opted for assimila-
tion) stretch throughout the Connecticut and Hudson River Valleys. This band is one of the
best-traveled of any in the state, though that's hardly of its own doing; the word “Mohican”
means,aptlyenough,“peopleofnever-stillwaters.”TheyfirstappearedinWisconsininthe
early 1820s, living in the Fox River Valley (hence, the town of Stockbridge on the eastern
shoreofLakeWinnebago;theStockbridgecemeterythereisaNationalHistoricSite)along
with the Munsee, a Delaware tribe also forced west by European expansion. Some Stock-
bridgeIndiansdecampedtoIndianaTerritoryinKansas;othersmovedtoRedSprings,Wis-
consin, to live on land ceded to them in 1856 by the Menominee (who got $20,000 for 2.5
million acres). The tribe numbers about 1,500.
Sights
The
Stockbridge Munsee Historical Library Museum
(715/793-4270, 8am-4:30pm
Mon.-Fri., free) has one of the best archives of Native American material in Wisconsin,
including maps dating from the 1600s (not on public display). Most exhibits are on the
