A Battle over Resources: Spirit Hill and Crandon Mine

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A Battle over Resources Spirit Hill and Crandon
Mine

• Dave Longsdorf
• Tanya Mahr
• Jake McDonald
• Jason Larner
• Tiff Gerber

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Reservations of Wisconsin
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• Post in the Lake
• Where the food grows upon the water
• A Lost Tribe
• 1937 Reservation

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Manoomin on Rice Lake
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1806 Battle of Mole Lake

• Sioux ambush in 1805
• Classic Warfare
• Story time an oral historic account
• Cost of War

Picture of Historical Marker
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1806 Battle of Mole Lake

• Sioux ambush in 1805
• Classic Warfare
• Story time an oral historic account
• Cost of War

Picture of Historical Marker
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Spirit Hill Spiritual Significance

• Turtles Back

• Wabano Ceremony

• Path to the West

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The Second Battle over Spirit Hill
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• I wasnt fighting for the mine, I was fighting
  for my ancestors.
• Fred Ackley

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Crandon Mine
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Works Cited

• Native Wisconsin Official Guide to Native
  American Communities in Wisconsin (p.20)
• History of the Sokaogon Chippewa, Mole Lake Band
  http//www.sokaogonchippewa.com/history.htm
• Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin
  Histories of Endurance and Renewal. Madison
  Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001.
• Historical Marker
• Interview with Fred Ackley
• Interview with Zoltan Grossman
• Grossman PowerPoints