The games involve javelins, called snakes, and require participants to throw them for distance or accuracy.
MADELINE ISLAND - For the first time in more than 150 years, the Ojibwe “Winter Olympics” are once again being played on Madeline Island in Wisconsin.
The island, about a mile offshore of northern Wisconsin in Lake Superior, is the historic capital of the Ojibwe Nation, which encompasses parts of what are now Canada and the U.S.
A popular tourist destination during the summer, the island is still culturally important to the Ojibwe people and a portion of it is part of the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Wisconsin...
The island, about a mile offshore of northern Wisconsin in Lake Superior, is the historic capital of the Ojibwe Nation, which encompasses parts of what are now Canada and the U.S.
A popular tourist destination during the summer, the island is still culturally important to the Ojibwe people and a portion of it is part of the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Wisconsin...
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