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By John Faucher

WAUPACA/PORTAGE COUNTY LINE — When Tim Tautges headed to his deer stand on a crisp autumn day near the Waupaca–Portage County line, he expected to see a trophy buck.
The land was a hunter’s dream — a mix of hardwoods and clearings, carefully managed for wildlife.
Tautges was a guest on what he called “the promised land” of deer hunting.
When the woods suddenly fell silent, the moment turned from peaceful to primal. What he saw next was the opposite of any hunter’s dream.

The woods turn quiet

To be clear, Tautges isn’t easily shaken. At six-foot-five, the seasoned outdoorsman is used to the woods’ sounds — and its silence.
As the sun dipped below the tree line, the chickadees, juncos, squirrels and a flock of turkeys beneath his stand suddenly fled.
“It was eerie, even the sound of the wind through the pine needles stopped. I knew something was coming,” said Tautges.
He figured it was a black bear or a wolf — both had been seen on the property before.
“I stood up in the stand and started looking around because I thought, well, this is kind of odd. I looked over my left shoulder and there was absolutely nothing there.
“I turned and started slowly coming back toward my right and out of my peripherals, that’s when I saw it up on the ridge, to the right of me, peering out from behind a tree,” said Tautges.
“I didn’t want to look further, but its gaze drew me to look at it, and we locked eyes. It was as if my soul got sucked out of me,” said Tautges.
It paralyzed him.
“I couldn’t yell, I couldn’t scream, I couldn’t look away.”

A creature beyond belief

Tautges described it as enormous — a…

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Anderson’s name carries a history much deeper than most realize. Long before streets and factories, before schools and churches, this land was home to the Miami people.

In the early 1800s the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Indians, settled here through agreement with the Miami. Chief Kikthawenund, remembered to us as Chief Anderson, established a Lenape village on the White River. That settlement, called Wapeminskink or the “Place of the Chestnut Trees,” became an important stop in the Lenape journey west.

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BEMIDJI — The Beltrami County Historical Society will host its annual history mystery event at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, at the history center, 130 Minnesota Ave.

This year’s event, “History Mystery: The Suspicious Death of Emma Davids,” invites the public to step back in time to the early days of the North Country, a release said.

“This year’s mystery revisits the life and untimely death of Emma Davids, a woman of Stockbridge-Munsee heritage who came north seeking a new beginning amid Bemidji’s 1906 logging-boom frontier,” the release added. “Found dead at the European Hotel under suspicious circumstances, her passing was officially recorded as ’cause unknown.’

“More than a century later, her story still echoes through the streets of Bemidji and the pine forests of northern Minnesota.”

Community actors will bring Emma’s final days and hours to life in a live mystery performance, after which audience members will step into the role of detective — interviewing suspects, gathering clues, and determining the location of the crime.

Each evening will conclude with prizes for the fastest detective, a random winner drawn from completed clue cards and best costumes. Guests are encouraged to arrive dressed as lumberjacks or ladies of the evening, with family-friendly attire and all genders welcome to choose either role.

The release adds that Face It Together Bemidji is partnering with the historical society to provide attendees with information and resources related to overdose prevention, treatment and addiction recovery, given themes of this year’s event.

“In 1906, laudanum, a potent opiate common in household medicine chests, was both a comfort and a curse across the North Country,” the release said. “It numbed pain but claimed countless lives (perhaps including that of Emma Davids), just as today’s opioid epidemic continues to devastate families and communities across Minnesota.”

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Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Roses symbolize love, royalty, beauty, sensuality, secrecy, and mysticism.

In 1904, the City of Spokane, Washington, obtained 95 acres of land which became Manito Park. The name manito is an Algonquian Indian word for spiritual forces. Rose Hill was developed in the late 1940s as a joint venture between the Spokane Rose Society and the Spokane Parks and Recreation Department. The gardens now hold 150 varieties of hybrid tea, grandiflora, floribunda, and miniature roses. Shown below are nearly a dozen different roses from the garden.

Sunshine Daydream

Beverly

Over The Moon

Henry Fonda

Graham Thomas

Rina Hugo

Marilynn Monroe

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Hugh Kane/The Williams Record

The Homelands PowWow, hosted this weekend at the Darrow School in New Lebanon, N.Y., marked the first powwow hosted by members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Tribe on their ancestral lands since their forceful expulsion in the late 18th century. 

Saturday’s main event was Grand Entry, a procession of community leaders,  dancers, and veterans of any service into a central circle where the majority of the powwow’s events took place. Directed by emcees from the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation in Wisconsin and accompanied by Rez Dogs, a drumming group from Indian Island, Maine, participants processed into the circle, marking the high point of the day. 

According to its website, this year’s Homelands PowWow was intentionally small so as to foster relationships and community that will grow the event into a sustained, annual tradition that celebrates the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans. “Our mission is to honor and reconnect the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican people with their ancestral lands,” the website reads. “Through the annual organization of this PowWow, we raise funds to support travel and lodging for tribal members who wish to return to these sacred homelands. Rooted in tradition, community, and cultural resilience, our work helps ensure that the connection between the Mohican people and their lands endures for generations to come.”

Shawn Stevens, who is the chairman of the Homelands PowWow Committee and a registered member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans, traveled from Wisconsin to put on the event. Stevens spoke with the Record about the inspiration for the powwow. “My older sister Ginger met with another friend of ours, and they said, ‘Hey, it would be great to have a powwow,’ not thinking much about it,” he said. “But, they were very serious about it, and we talked to a lot of local…

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NORTH ANDOVER — Tim Weisberg, of Spooky Southcoast for SPOOKY SALEM 2025, will be hosted by the North Andover Historical Society to lead a paranormal investigation at the Parson Barnard House from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m., on Saturday, Oct. 11.

The Parson Barnard House was built for the Rev. Thomas Barnard, a minister who helped accused victims of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

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NEW LEBANON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The original inhabitants of the Capital Region have returned this weekend to dance on their homelands for the first time since they were forcibly removed. The band of Mohicans celebrated their historic return with the Homelands PowWow. 

The inaugural event saw the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Indians return to their ancestral lands at the Darrow School.

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Their original territory was, what is now called, the Capital Region – from the Hudson River in the greater Albany area, all the way up to Lake Champlain.

The tribe was removed from the land in the 1700s. From Albany they were forced to a mission in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Then, to the Oneida territory in upstate New York, before finally landing in Wisconsin where tribal members currently reside.

“We wanted to return to the homeland,” said Homelands PowWow Arena Director Gordon Williams.

He said it’s long overdue and the return feels powerful. I asked, “The singing, the dancing, the drumming, that was all illegal at one point.” Williams responded, “Yeah, it was all illegal.” 

His great uncle used to preserve their traditions by hiding in the woods to practice them, when Native Americans were not citizens and religious ceremonies were considered illegal.

60 Mohicans traveled from Green Bay to dance on their homelands – like Ginger Stevens who brought 16 of her family members.

“Every one of our tribal members has had a lot of tears to walk on this land. and I thought I was done with the tears until I walked out in that grand entry and danced on this land for my ancestors. So it’s very special,”…

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Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans and other tribal people will be attending an inaugural powwow at Darrow School.

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — For the first time in more than 200 years, tribal people will return to their homeland for an inaugural powwow. 

 

The traditional Homelands PowWow will bring members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans from all over the state, from Wisconsin all the way to California, to Darrow School for the weekend of Oct. 4 and 5. 

 

The event runs from 10 to 5 both days and tickets are $10 to $20; weekend passes are $15 to $30. Children younger than 5 are free. More information here. 

 

“This gathering is both a renewal and a prayer, and it’s a living bridge between the past, present and the future,” said Shawn Stevens, Homelands PowWow chair.

 

Returning to their homeland is a transformative act of reconnection, healing, and spiritual renewal, Homelands PowWow board members said in a recent interview. 

 

There is a welcoming vibration that is felt throughout their body when walking on their ancestral homeland, said Ginger Stevens, founding board member. 

 

“It’s our ancestors, and our land, our home, our mother welcoming us … that’s why we’re so excited to bring so many people out there,” she said. 

 

For some, it is a returning trip, but for many, the inaugural powwow will be their first experience, Ginger Stevens said. 

 

For Wanonah Kosbab, fellow board member, visiting her ancestral homeland was a deeply emotional, healing, and transformative experience filled with tears, laughter, confusion, and a profound sense of…

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By Dave Larsen

Two University of Dayton students were awarded 2025 arts and humanities scholarships by the Council on Undergraduate Research, from a total of five U.S. awards.

Savannah “Sam” Smith and Caleb Molseed received awards to support their honors thesis projects from the council’s arts and humanities division, which offers annual scholarships to support undergraduate student research and creative inquiry projects at any stage of development up to and including presentation.

Smith is a senior from Cincinnati with a triple major in German, world language education and history. Her honors thesis looks at how German academic institutions, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, used folklore to perpetuate anti-Semitism during the Third Reich.

Molseed is a senior from Cleveland with a double major in history and English. His honors thesis examines the Stockbridge-Munsee, an Indigenous nation that emerged as a single community from the Stockbridge Mohicans from New York’s Hudson River Valley and the Munsee band of the Lenape from Pennsylvania’s Delaware River region.

“I am so proud of Sam and Caleb for being two of the five students who are receiving CUR Scholarships,” said Danielle Poe, UD College of Arts and Sciences dean. “This is an exceptional honor, as these awards are rare in the arts and humanities, marking their achievement as a true standout on a national level.

“Further, these awards are a powerful testament not only to the excellent work of Sam and Caleb but also to the exceptional quality of scholarship and dedicated mentorship provided by our faculty in the arts and humanities.”

Smith’s topic combines several of her interests, including the Holocaust and folklore, specifically fairy tales. She plans to teach German after graduation and enjoys learning about pedagogy and how it has developed across different cultures…

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