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Ethan
Ethan
One of the most unique thing was learning that they have a history class and a cultural/language class. A fact I learned was that most of the Menominee today don’t speak fluent language, only some of the elders do. When we ate lunch with the students at the Menominee reservation, their lunch was better than our schools. I thought it wasn’t going to be that good but it turned out differently than I suspected. I was astonished by how much knowledge the students at the school knew about their culture and the stories and traditions they do.
The Menominee have many traditions like one is that when they are in 8th grade, they make like lacrosse sticks by like carving them and forming them into a lacrosse stick, but they have a hook on them and it isn’t really like lacrosse, it is more physical and it doesn’t use a ball you use this leather strap and try to wrap the strap around a pole to score points. That was the game the girls play. The guys do something like it but it is more like lacrosse. Also, that when the boys are about 13 they have to build this shack and put rocks in it and make a fire and they don’t get any food or water for 3 days. The only thing they can do during that time is pray. This is to start a young adult stage and they don’t get called a man at 18 like we do they get called a man when they earn that label.