The Ojibwe were not out of place in this land of the Ho-Chunk.
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Emile Pell, 9, tries his hand at a game of snow snake during an Ojibwe Winter Games demonstration on Lake Mendota near the UW-Madison shoreline. Snow snake involves sliding a stick for distance on a path of ice and is a game that was played for likely hundreds of years by the Ojibwe in northern Wisconsin.
Wayne Valliere, a teacher at Lac du Flambeau Public School in western Vilas County, displays a spear-throwing device during a talk Friday in the Mendota Room of Dejope Residence Hall at UW-Madison. In the background is a glass sculpture of the lake by Aris Georgiades and Gail Simpson.
UW-Madison student and Purépecha Tribal Nation member Ana Escovar prepares to throw a spear while trying her hand at a game of hoop and spear during Friday's Ojibwe Winter Games on Lake Mendota near the Dejope Residence Hall at UW-Madison.
Participants in the Ojibwe Winter Games retrieve spears thrown toward targets on Lake Mendota during a demonstration of using an atlatl to propel the spear.
Participants in the Ojibwe Winter Games pick out snow snakes, pieces of honed maple, to throw down a narrow lane of ice. The snow snakes can range in size from 2 to 10 feet long.
Anna Sherwood, a member of the Aleut Athabascan Tribal Nation, instructs UW-Madison student Isabella Escovar in the art of spear-throwing.
Photos: Dugout canoe recovered from Lake Mendota after 1,200 years
Dugout canoe
Randy Wallander, a volunteer diver from Manitowoc, unloads gear for the dive. Wallander specializes in bringing up sunken objects, usually in Lake Michigan.
Dugout canoe
Members of the dive team from the Dane County Sheriff's Office were among those who took part in Tuesday's dive near Shorewood Hills.
Dougout canoe
Divers prepare to remove a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe from Lake Mendota on Tuesday.
Dugout canoe
Dugout canoe
Divers converged on Lake Mendota Tuesday to recover a dugout canoe that hadn't been to the surface in 1,200 years.
Dugout canoe
Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist who discovered the Native American dugout canoe in June in Lake Mendota, celebrates the recovery Tuesday with Jim Skibo, Wisconsin's state archaeologist. The canoe was placed in an enclosed trailer for its trip from Spring Harbor Beach to the State Archive Preservation Facility on Madison's Near East Side.
Dugout canoe
Spectators watch as a 1,200-year-oid dugout canoe makes its way across Lake Mendota to Spring Harbor Beach.
Dugout canoe
A 1,200-year-old dugout canoe was raised from Lake Mendota Tuesday by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The canoe was discovered in June during a recreational dive and is the oldest intact boat ever recovered from Wisconsin waters. The canoe will undergo preservation efforts over the next two years before it can be displayed in a museum.
Dugout canoe
Spectators watch as a 1,200-year-oid dugout canoe crafted by members of the Native American Ho-Chunk tribe from Lake Mendota near Spring Harbor Beach in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Dugout canoe
A dugout canoe crafted in A.D. 800 was towed for most of its 1-mile trip to shore but guided by divers in shallow water for the final 100 yards or so to Spring Harbor Beach.
Dugout canoe
Bystanders watch as yellow floats are used to bring a dugout canoe to Spring Harbor Beach. The 1-mile trip took nearly two hours.
Dugout canoe
Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist who discovered the Native American dugout canoe in June in Lake Mendota, celebrates the recovery Tuesday with Jim Skibo, Wisconsin's state archaeologist. The canoe was placed in an enclosed trailer for its trip from Spring Harbor Beach to the State Archive Preservation Facility on Madison's Near East Side.
Dugout canoe
A 1,200-year-old dugout canoe was raised from Lake Mendota Tuesday by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The canoe was discovered in June during a recreational dive and is the oldest intact boat ever recovered from Wisconsin waters. The canoe will undergo preservation efforts over the next two years before it can be displayed in a museum.
Dugout canoe
A dugout canoe crafted in A.D. 800 was towed for most of its 1-mile trip to shore but guided by divers in shallow water for the final 100 yards or so to Spring Harbor Beach.
