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Hi SuzQ!SuzQ said:
I'm so glad to see GREEN GRASS finally & even some flowering trees already! How about you?
~Suz
That is longer than the tribe has been there! Our tribe did not get federally recognized until the 1930's and then the menominee's had to give us some of their land before the gov't finally came through.nephilimiyr said:Hello DrBob!
My brother owns land right alongside the western boundry of Stockbridge. The land has been in the family for over 150 years. The land is just used for forest crop and hunting purposes and has no permanent building on it. I don't hunt so I signed over my 20 acres to my brother.
nephilimiyr said:Hi SuzQ!
Up here in Wausau it looks like the trees are going to leave sooner than average this year. Welcome to CF!
Neph
Wypadek said:My mom sent this to me and I figured I would share it with you guys!
Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy",you might live in Wisconsin.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin.
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin.
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have either a pet or a child named "Brett", you might live in Wisconsin.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin.
If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, "From the land of sky-blue waters,....you might live in Wisconsin.
Series II. YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor
on the highway.
2. "Vacation" means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back
again.
6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.
7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events. (including
weddings)
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave
both unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows
how to use them.
12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's
Fleet Farm at any given time.
13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow.
15. You refer to the Packers as "we."
16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
road construction.
17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.
20. You know how to polka.
21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
your blue spruce.
22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
23. Down South to you means Iowa.
24. A brat is something you eat.
25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
26. You go out to fish fry every Friday
27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
29. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
Thanks Annie that was a good, funny list!QuePasa said:That last one is actually The (Bears/Vikings) win the Super Bowl. How dare you.
I asked my mother about this and what she says is that the family moved from Canada into Wisconsin in the 1850s and didn't own the land until around 1875 so I guess my info that I first gave you is a little off. As for the tribe not owning the land until the 1930s, hey, you guys were here before us, who are we to say we owned it before your forefathersDrBob said:That is longer than the tribe has been there! Our tribe did not get federally recognized until the 1930's and then the menominee's had to give us some of their land before the gov't finally came through.
I have a sister in Wausau who deals cards at northstar casino on the rez...
Doc
You must have been involved in the Badger State Games? They go on in the first week of Febuary.SuzQ said:Thanks Neph! My husband & I were in Wausau this past February. I went cross-country skiing for the first time.....and it wasn't pretty! My husband grew up in northern Sweden, so he's been on skiis since he was 3 years old! I wiped out & little kids were skiing past me!! :o
(Good thing I didn't try downhill at Granite Peak as my first skiing experience!However, once I got the hang of it, it was fun. The scenery at Nine Mile Forest was breathtaking!
We'll definitely be back!
nephilimiyr said:I asked my mother about this and what she says is that the family moved from Canada into Wisconsin in the 1850s and didn't own the land until around 1875 so I guess my info that I first gave you is a little off. As for the tribe not owning the land until the 1930s, hey, you guys were here before us, who are we to say we owned it before your forefathers.
Northstar Casino is a popular place around here but sorry, I don't gamble.
Neph
Well I do know my uncle Richard used to brag about haveing indian blood in the family but from the story he always told it was Canadian indian but no one has ever been able to confirm this? My last name is Thomas and is of Norwiegian decent so you would think we would all be blood, blued eyed, and fair skinned but some of us, including myself are anything but. Maybe if you asked around there some of the old folks might remember the name. I know even though there isn't any Thomas's that live around Bowler anymore some of the older folks there still remember the name. I know that my grandparents moved out of the homestead and went to live in Shawano I do believe right around the time you say the reservation came to be in the 1930s.DrBob said:Your info could still be right on! You guys just owned the land next to what would one day become our reservation! Our tribal homeland was New York state and Mass. in the Houstatonic river valley.
We probably have ancestors in common with all the marriages that happened around there. Who knows for sure?!
Doc
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