Transcript for Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post Field Trip Video
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Male Narrator: Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 [loon call] Loons? [swords clang] Vikings? [gopher squeek] Gophers? [buzzer] No! Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes.
[boat motor] Minnesotans enjoy their lakes in lots of different ways. They go boating, [splash] swimming, [fishing reel] fishing, or just take in their beauty. There are some people in Minnesota who have lived, worked and played by the same lake for hundreds of years. They are the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and they still live by Lake Mille Lacs, one of the largest lakes in the state.
[children laughing] You'll learn about the Mille Lacs Band when you visit the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post. You'll play games band members played. [children yelling]
Child Voice: Some Native Americans back in the, let's say 1800s, did not only play lacrosse, they played baseball.
Male Voice: That's one stick, go again!
Child Voice: Yeah, Ben!
Male Narrator: You'll learn about the language, music, dance and art the Mille Lacs Band has passed down over hundreds of years.
Child Voice: We're doing beadwork.
Male Narrator: You'll learn how the band lives today and at the trading post, you'll see many arts and crafts American Indian artists create and sell.
Child Voice: Look it. There's an arrowhead.
Child Voice: This is so cool!
Male Narrator: You'll also walk into a world
Child Voice: It's awesome!
Male Narrator: that shows how Ojibwe people lived and worked long ago. In fall, winter, spring and summer.
Female Voice: Now here in the summer they're going to be doing one of Minnesota's favorite pastimes, that's fishing.
Male Narrator: You'll see how everything they needed came from the lake and the land around it.
Child Voice: The summer house was not birchbark, just like, normal bark, curved up, and that keeps, um, the cool air in.
Male Narrator: The Ojibwe used birchbark canoes to travel in almost every season.
Female Voice: Now, it's almost wintertime and the water is about to freeze over.
Male Narrator: How do you think they stored their canoes over the winter so they'd be ready to use once the ice melted?
Female Voice: They didn't take it apart. They wanted to keep it together.
Male Narrator: Think about it, talk about it, and find out the answer
Child Voice: I wish I could stay longer.
Male Narrator: when you visit the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post.
Child Voice: I would definitely come back.
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