your story. >> Veterans Day is November
11th. In Environmental news, a culturally and
ecologically important controlled burn happened in
superior this week. Wisconsin Point along Lake
Superior was the site of what is known as a cultural
prescribed burn. The fire removed invasive species
and added nutrients to the soil to nurture native
plants. The restoration effort was a partnership
with the fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
The point was settled by the Ojibwe and site of
burial grounds, but the community was forced from
the land in the early 1900s and the cemetery desecrated
to make way for harbor expansion. The tribe
regained the land from the city of superior in 2022,
which called the prescribed burn part of a broader
healing process of honoring the land and those who came
before. For the Ojibwe, such burns are a sacred
connection to the health of the land.
>> This Great Lakes area. All the plants here are
fire dependent. They depend on fire to keep growing.
There's a lot of states that are turning to the
indigenous tribes in the use of fire to promote what
their traditions were of, you know, using fires to
shape their environment, to slow down the spread of
large, you know, large, uncontained fires. But
there's something we learned traditionally was
fire. You know, the cleansing, it helped heal