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S. D.
Erks. >> In Madam Chinamo, today we're
checking out some Wisconsin history at the State Historical
Museum and the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.
We're also meeting young gold car races running around the
track and we'll clear and we'll take a powwow on the La Cuda
Rang Indian Reservation.
Then we'll meet brother and sister ski jumpers
who both completed in the junior Olympics.
But first, we're meeting a girl in a really cool dog.
Together, they're making a difference.
Here in the State Historical Museum, like in other public
buildings, no pecter allowed.
The only exception is service dogs, especially
trained to help people who have physical disabilities.
The dogs usually wear a cape like this so that people
know they're working and not just somebody's pet.
Service dogs have been the first part of their life
living with their trainers.
One of those trainers is Tiffany Botley from Jane's Bill.
Meet Wisconsin's own governor.
No, not governor Tommy Thompson in Madison,
governor from Jane's Bill.
Yes, he's a dog.
And this is Tiffany.
She's training governor to be a service dog.
Governors trained to help someone who uses a wheelchair
do things that that person might have trouble doing,
like turning on a light or opening the refrigerator.
Tiffany does much of the training from a wheelchair,
so governor gets used to it.
Every week we go to a class with governor and they
trade me to train him.
I take him with me wherever I go because the behavior
that I teach him in public places will help him when
he is with his recipient.
He should not bark or sniff.
Don't touch.
He learns to pull a wheelchair.
He will learn that he has to go on our table at a restaurant.
Thank you.
He learns to pay for things in a store.
I'm going outside.
You're going to be a boy?
Yes. It's fun having a dog that
does these awesome things.
It'll be a new independence for his recipients.
I like the wrist month ability.
It's helped me grow and learn a lot about myself.
I love government very much.
He was like a best friend.
They always say, "Man's best friend, but it's a
woman's best friend too."
It's going to be very hard to part with him, but for governor,
it's a new part of his life.
It's the payoff time for him.
Tiffany has had governor since he was a puppy, but now after
a year and a half of training, it's time for governor to
meet his new owner, Dr.
McKenna from DePierre.
He has multiple sclerosis and governor will help him a lot.
How are you, Dr.
McKenna? So good to meet you.
And Tiffany now has to teach Dr.
McKenna how to communicate with governor.
Pull. Set.
Yeah. There you go.
Good boy, girl.
I think it's just marvelous for somebody who rage.
To care that much about people and get that involved.
And some kind of a program like this, it's going
to be helping people.
Even though it's hard for Tiffany to give up governor,
she says she's happy.
He'll be making a difference in Dr.
McKenna's life.
It feels great to have known that I helped somebody.
And I know he'll be very loved.
So I feel good about it.
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If you'd like some information on how you might qualified to
become a service dog trainer, send us a letter.
Grab a pencil and a piece of paper now so you're
ready when we give you our address later on in the show.
Did you know the granite used in grants to Ms.
Frumles-Kansen? Ulysses S.
Grant was the 18th president of the United States.
He was also a union general in the Civil War.
Grant died in 1885 and is buried in New York.
But the granite used to make his tomb came from Ms.
Kansen. And it's the hardest
granite in the world.
Do you know where Ms.
Kansen and the granite came from?
See if you can figure it out and we'll let you in on the
answer later in the show.
A museum gives us a close up look at things we might not
otherwise get a chance to see.
Sometimes TV does that too.
If I give this next story, where we get a driver's
eye view of a gold carving.
I got interested in gold carving.
I watch a lot of NASCAR Winston car races.
Or I thought that gold carving would be the easiest
way for me to start racing.
The name of my class is the Rookie Class.
The classes go by ages and weights.
And my classes from 9 to 12 years old,
they asked the way 245 pounds I think.
The weights include the person and all the equipment, the
cart, and all the equipment you wear while driving.
The green flag sounds the star of the race.
When the drivers see the green flag coming through
that first corner right there, they're going to take
off and go like that.
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I'm very first race.
I had set a couple of goals for myself just to
finish and to not crash.
Stay on the lead lap.
I did.
So I met my goals.
It was a little scary.
Got really nervous.
I think I came in fourth place my very first heat.
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One of the guys went on in front and in front of me
and I went around him and he came back and passed me.
So I was kind of upset about that.
But
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This driver see the white flag, they know that that's
the second to the last lap.
And the next lap around they're going to get the checkered flag.
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I really don't know how I could start a thing in my goal cards
to just pop in my head one day.
And we found one in the paper and we went and purchased it.
And I made a deal with my parents that they'd
buy the cards for me, but I'd have to pay
it off through chores.
And now I've got a paper out which is, I get pretty good
pay and I am paying it off.
Yeah, you like racing.
I'd suggest goal carding.
It's real fun.
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Wow, talk about zooming.
Hey, if you'd like to learn more about goal carding,
send us a letter and we'll send you the facts.
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The pictures tell a story.
Museum educator Tammy Jarvis is here to explain.
Hi Tammy.
Hi Shannon.
You're right.
This is like a letter because it has a message.
The group of Chippewa Chiefs had a desire to make a
permanent home in Wisconsin, near Lake Superior on
a group of rice lakes.
And they drew up a symbolic petition representing each of
the important clan members, the crane clan, the Martin
clan, the Bear clan, the Manfish clan, and the Catfish clan.
And they showed that they had unity and purpose by joining
a line that connected all of their eyes or their minds
and all of their hearts.
What happened?
Well, the petition was successful and
they were allowed to remain in Wisconsin near the rice
lakes of Lake Superior.
Well, that's great.
Thanks Tammy.
You're welcome.
One way to learn about Native American culture
today is to go to a powwow.
Jason Pettybone invited Get Meal to a powwow at the La Cuda
Ray reservation where he lives.
It's also known as the LCO reservation.
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My name is Jason Pettybone.
I live on the also reservation.
My Indian heritage is Winnebago, Chippewa, and Ojibwe.
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A powwow has mainly about people and friends gathering to get
to know each other and to meet new friends and to honor people.
But mainly it's for people to sing dance and have fun.
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My powls are both powls beginning with the granted
truth. The dancers follow the Indian flag,
which is a further staff.
The Indian flag is followed by the royalty and the dancers.
There are different kinds of poles, like a traditional
pole and a contest pole.
A contest pole is where dancers and drummers get judged
on how they dance and sing.
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Some kids that don't understand the native heritage, I want
an old water, native heritage so they'll know what poles are
and why dancers dance and what the meaning of the songs are.
We sing our songs in our native language, which is Ojibwe.
I started singing at the beginning of the year because
I felt like I would enjoy it and it would make me feel good.
[Music]
There are different kinds of songs for special occasions.
There are some songs to honor veterans or honor people
that passed away or if someone is traveling far away,
they'll sing a song for them to have a safe trip there.
[Music]
Things I'm learning, what I think are special, it is about
my culture and my language.
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It's because I didn't really know what I should know.
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If you'd like to read more about Native Americans,
check out this book.
It's a Yoka and the Token Leaves by Peter and Connie Roup.
A Yoka's father, Sequoia, was the man who first figured
out how to put the Cherokee language into writing.
It's a really neat story.
It even includes a chart of the Cherokee alphabet.
You can check out a Yoka and the Token Leaves from the library.
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Have you figured out where Wisconsin and the granite
was mined for grants to 'em?
Here's a little more information.
A specific type of granite was red granite.
Red granite is also Wisconsin's state rock.
But the granite used in grants to 'em didn't come
from the town of red granite.
It came from a city that also has the biggest
tree in Wisconsin.
It's a cottonwood tree and measures 23 feet round, 138
feet high, and 132 feet across.
Where Wisconsin is it?
Keep guessing the answer's coming up in just a few minutes.
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This is a reconstruction of a house founded at Asselin.
Come on in.
Asselin is a historic site.
Found about 30 miles east of Madison.
Archaeologists believe that some Native American families used
to live in houses like these more than 700 years ago.
Up to six people could live in here.
Hey Asa, since we're talking about where people lived,
I think we should do this week's "What Do You Think Question?"
Yeah, 2V Central Sliders was just about the same questions.
Mindy Kierstedt of Monroe and Amber Strong
of a Cross Bull asked, "Where would you like
to live and why?"
We went to Dodgeville Elementary School to get some opinions.
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When I grew up, I wanted to live in Florida
because there's no answer, and I thought that
would be fine.
I want to live in New York City because it, I think,
it'd be pretty cool and fun to live there.
I wanted to live in a farm because I like animals.
I'd like to live in a land of Georgia because of the
beautiful national parts of the national forest.
When I was in high school, because my cousins lived
there as a nice little town.
In Australia, because of all the needy animals.
I want to live outside of Dodgeville because most
of my relatives live here and I like animals.
But I want to live in Holland because I have family there.
I would like to live all over the world because I like to
learn different languages, cultures, and the religions.
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This is the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.
It's right across the street from the State
Historical Museum.
This museum is meant to honor all the people from
Wisconsin who served in any war from the Civil War up
through the Persian Gulf War.
The idea of this museum isn't to glorify war.
It's to honor the people who fought for freedom
and to remember war so there are no more.
Some kids in Green Bay are going one step further
and learning about history.
They participate in reenactments of life during
the French and Indian War.
They caught up with the letter reenactment in Warsaw.
[Music]
Who represent the British Army during the
French and Indian War?
Present!
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In all armies of that time period, women
were part of the army.
Of course with women, the children came because
they had to be married to be a part of the army.
During weekends, my friends and their families travel
all over the Midwest to show what life is like back then.
[Music]
They obey their parents a little bit more and probably
do more chores and stuff than what we do today.
[Music]
Take a while to get used to that, no T.E.s
and radios and stuff.
[Music]
This is a cup and ball and the ball wouldn't ball
suspended from a string.
And yet, you can just try and get the ball and the cup.
We play Jacob's ladder, cars and we draw on slates and we
play checkers and we usually make up songs and stuff.
[Music]
I have the long skirt on and I have a bodice.
This is a French bodice, not a British and I have a schnitzon.
[Music]
One's a wild turkey and one's a tame turkey and therefore
for the whole regiment and they'll be cooking all day.
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That turkey was good!
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I think a lot of kids like doing this is because you get
all the attention and stuff and it's a bit sitting home
on the couch watching TV.
A paragraph in a history book in school does not constitute
a whole generation of life and that's what we do.
[Music]
Native Americans had games sort of like the ones that
the kids had in that story.
Who you try to get the stick through the holes in the
leather? It's fun and it helps kids with their hand-eye
coordination skills which they need you later to hunt.
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This is not easy.
We're going to keep trying this.
Well you take a look at a brother and sister from
O'Claire who are both on the flying Eagle ski jump team.
I'm Tom Rok and I start ski jumping when I
was five years old.
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My name is Kathy Melk.
I've been jumping since I was 11.
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When you look at the end of the jump it's kind of like a blast
of air hits you on the bigger jumps and you got to kind of
lean forward or else you'll fall back and it's pretty fun.
It kind of feels like flying like you're a bird.
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When you get on the bigger hill you start to
feel like you're flying.
It's kind of a nice feeling just like you're free and
there's nothing holding you off.
It's kind of floating through the air even though
it's such a short time.
It seems to take hours in your mind if you go down.
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These are my skis.
They're 230 centimeters long and
they're about four inches wide.
They don't really need to be wider than down hills but
they need to be wider than cross-country skis because
you get going a lot faster so you get more speed and
get going a lot farther.
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I started ski jumping because I saw some little kids
doing it when I was watching my younger brother and I
thought it looked pretty easy.
I started on the Pee-Weeb bump which is about a foot high
maybe and I just kept skiing down until I could make it
without falling and it took about three or four jumps.
Within the week I moved up to the 10 meter which
is a little bit bigger.
Maybe three feet take off.
Within a month I moved up to the 20 meter which is the
one behind me and I skied on that for a whole season
because that's the age class I was supposed to be in.
When I found out that I qualified for the Junior
Olympics I was really excited because it's a really
great experience that not many people get to have.
When I first found out that I qualified to go to the Junior
Olympics I thought to myself well I've been training for
seven years so there's some knowledge here so I better
just do my best.
It was great.
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Cool story.
You know it takes you a lot of guts for those
ski jumpers to fly through the air like that?
Yeah. I don't know about you guys
but I'd be scared that landing would hurt especially
after being that high up.
That's a cool thing about ski jumping.
If you do it right the scientific
principles involved make sure that landing doesn't hurt.
That's true.
Can you believe there's science
even in ski jumping?
Oh. There's lots of science in ski jumping like
aerodynamics and center of balance but what we're
talking about is collisions.
Have you ever noticed how ski jumps are always built
on hills?
That's so that the jumpers can land gradually.
Part of their skis hit a higher part of the hill before
the rest of their skis hit a lower part of the hill.
That way the collision time between the skier and
the ground is stretched out so the impact is more
gradual and doesn't hurt.
So what you're saying is if skiers land on a background
instead of a hill they could really get hurt.
Right. Because the impact between the person and the
ground would be all at once.
And from as high up as these guys fly that wouldn't be
too good for your health.
You know the idea of stretching out the collision
time is also one of the principles behind things
like football pads, helmets, and even airbags and cars.
They only make the collision time between your body and some
object more gradual so your body feels less of an impact.
But the fact remains that with ski jumping you still
have to do it right or you can crash and hurt yourself.
You aren't kidding.
That's what flying eagles can do is
so cool.
They practice a lot.
If you want to know more about the principles behind
collision time talk with your teacher.
There are lots of experiments you can do.
If you said the red granite was mined in Montelo
you're right.
Montelo is in Marquette County in the south
central part of the state.
Montelo is one of the few cities in the world with a granite
quarry on its main street.
Tests have proven Montelo red granite to be the
hardest in the world.
Geologists say Montelo granite was formed by the
slow cooling of magma in the Fox River Valley.
For nearly a century hundreds of people worked
in the Montelo quarry.
Many famous monuments, especially soldiers memorials,
are made out of Montelo granite.
These include the historic general custom monument in the
black hills and in the grants too, General Grants Caughton.
Today the mine is no longer in operation and
is filled with water but it stands as a monument to
Montelo's historic past.
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mathematics and technology.
In cooperation with Marshfield Children's, care for kids
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