- This week
on Wisconsin Life:
A rock star
who lives the small town life,
a metal artist who
forges culture into his craft,
a coach who turned his passion
into a profession
and a group
strumming up tunes.
It's all ahead on
Wisconsin Life!

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- Hello and welcome to
 Wisconsin Life.
I'm your host,
Angela Fitzgerald.
Today we're exploring
the rhythm and sounds
of the Oneida Nation
at the
Music from our Culture Camp.

The camp is located
in the arts cottage
in the Oneida Nation,
which is just west of
the Green Bay metropolitan area.
Each year,
the Oneida Nation Arts Program
holds the Music
from our Culture Camp,
where children
get hands-on experience
learning about
tribal and hymnal music
heard in their community.
The experience culminates
with the campers
putting on a live performance
in traditional regalia.
I can't wait to get started.
But before I do,
let's head to Germantown
where another member
of the Oneida Nation
is fusing his heritage
into his art.

[torch fuel flows,
lighter clicks]
- My grandfather
was a blacksmith.
[flame whooshes]
My dad was a pipefitter.

So there was
always a torch in the garage.
We're heating it
up to about 1,200 degrees.

Any time I have a stressful day
or have a bad day,
I go weld something together.
It always makes me feel better.
I've always done this,
ever since I was a little kid.
My grandfather
taught me how to do this...
and my father.
And it's--
I'm going home.
I'm relaxed.
I'm with my family.
Even though
they're both dead and gone,
I still feel like
they're here and helping me.
Or I'm helping them.
[combustion]
My mom's family
moved from Green Bay
where the reservation is
to Milwaukee.
And a lot of Natives did
because of the jobs.
My mother's an Oneida.
And my father's
actually German Jew.
My mom had us registered
at birth.
She was well-known
on the reservation.
And she wanted to make sure that
we all knew that we were Native.
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Where you come from,
I always wrote "Red.
At the time,
it wasn't too cool to be Native.

It was kind of a rough time
as a child.

Picked on and teased a lot
and that sort of thing,
about being Native American.
But it just made us tougher.

Our symbolism...
And this is the symbol
of my tribe.
It's a Iroquois flower pattern.
It has fiddlehead fern hair,
and it's a shawl dancer.
She's out
dancing her heart out
and showing everybody
that she's an Oneida.

I'm from the Turtle Clan;
the poets, the prophets,
and the artists
of our community.
This is my turtle teacher.
It's a self-portrait.
I'm a former educator.
He's got the talking stick
and a book.
This is the old way
and the new way.
The turtle has all its students.
It has all the babies around him
wanting to hear the story.
Every piece that I make
tells a story.

And that's how most
Native American art is done.
It's not just a beautiful piece.
It tells a story.

The oldest piece I have
is...
probably the long boat.
This is a symbol of our tribe.
We are
"the people of the long boat."
We were originally
from New York.

I'll start working on a pattern
or a design and
sometimes it'll sit on my bench
for months.
And all of a sudden,
I'll be inspired,
"Oh yeah, I should do this
or this
and that'll really
make it beautiful."
I'm thinking of making
a wolf out of this one.
And it'll have legs
so that it actually
sits on the edge of the table.
Just leave them sit on the table
until you're inspired
on what would really be
the nicest piece I could make.
And then we're going to put
the top of the shell on.

You go around
and attach it to each leg.

Probably it was in my forties
[laughs]
before I started.
I'm 60 now.
Most of the stuff
I just kept in my yard.
On the weekends, I'd get people pulling in my driveway,
walking through my yard.
I'd go out there
wondering what people
were doing in my yard going,
"How much is this one?" thinking
I'm a gallery or something.
That helped influence me
to go into the field
'cause people were stopping
and liked it
and wanted to purchase it.
Either do this
or become a greeter at Walmart.
[laughs]
So we had to make it work.

The story is very important.

Once I do come up with a design,
for instance,
if I do a Bear Clan pattern
that represents our nurses,
our doctors, our firefighters
and policemen and our veterans.
And all of our protectors
are Bear Clan.
I'll tag a little story onto it
that actually tells about this
piece and what it means to us.

I would say less than 10%
go to other Natives.
It's usually to non-Natives
that want to learn more
about Natives.
And they like the way
I teach it.
I think it's so neat
that so many people
are interested
in the original culture
of America.
[power sander vibrates]
Yeah, I like beautiful things
and I like
making beautiful things.
But I'm just as intrigued
when someone comes up
and falls in love with it.
I've had it many times
where they come in
and see my life-sized bison
and say, "Oh, my God"
and tears start rolling.
I mean you really
feel that heartfelt message.

Its name is "Ancient Dignity."
But it's all hand-pounded.
Heated up and pounded
with a hammer to form the body.
Then I put on 5,000 feet of hair
which came out to
about 30,000 individual hairs
on the body itself.

I tried to make the eyes aware,
so that wherever you walked around it,
the eyes were following you.
The nose, being big and soft
and cushiony,
the children just love to come
and touch the nose.

That's why I do it is
I like making beautiful things
and I like making things
that touch other people.

-I figured the best way to learn
about the Oneida arts culture
is to see and hear it yourself.
In a bit, campers from
the Music from our Culture Camp
are going to play
on the powwow drum
with their instructor,
Harold Katchenago.
[Powwow drum music and singing]

What a wonderful experience
and there's still
so much more to see.

Before we check out more,
let's keep the tunes rolling
with a stop
in the city of Durand
to meet a rock star who's
got a famous band of friends.

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- Mark Healey
is as comfortable
in a recording studio
as he is in the small
west-central Wisconsin town
called Durand.
- You know, I know everybody
and it's kinda nice.
[car rumbles by]

- Here you can still find
a barber, a bar, and a bakery,
all on the same street.
- There's this mindset
that's a little bit different
than other places
and it turns out
to be my mindset.
[rock guitar music]

- And Mark is 
a little bit different
because not everyone is part
of a legendary rock band.
- People know the songs but they don't know the name of the band.
[performing "Baby Blue"]
- The band is Badfinger.
Back in the 70s,
long before Mark was a member,
their songs
were bona fide Billboard hits.

- "No Matter What",
"Day After Day",
"Come and Get It",
"Baby Blue."
- § If you want it §
§ Here it is §
§ Come and get it §
§ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh §
§ Make your mind up fast §
- If they sound
a bit like the Beatles,
that's no coincidence.
They were a protégé band
that followed in the wake
of the Fab Four.
And the first group signed
by the Beatles' Apple Records.
- Paul McCartney wrote
the first song for the band:
"Come and Get It."
Then George Harrison produced
the Straight Up album.

- The Beatles and Badfinger
were often intertwined.
Around that same time,
Mark Healey was a teenager
growing up
in Wisconsin's capital city.
- Oh, man,
it was fantastic.
I grew up on the west side.
It was definitely
an exciting time.
I mean
when the riots were going on.
The Mifflin Street block party,
I think the police
gave everybody
30 seconds to disperse.
And then within no time at all,
they were
just shooting tear gas in.
- It was against that backdrop
that Mark found
his musical footing.
- I know when I was 14,
I got in this band
called "The Fine Young Men,"
except we had a girl singer.
We had an agent.
We played on the weekends.
I had to wear glasses,
because I was 14
and we're playing in these bars.
I didn't want to be rich
or famous or anything.
I just wanted to play.
- And play he did.
Mark found his way
to Los Angeles
and into recording studios,
engineering music
for television shows
like Magnum P.I.
- Did some music for a show called Gilligan's Planet.
Did a lot
of Hanna-Barbera stuff.
Did a lot of cartoons
that never went anywhere.

- The group Badfinger
wasn't going anywhere either.
Trying to overcome the suicides
of two original band members
and financial problems,
lead singer Joey Molland
had an idea.
[Joey Molland speaks
with a British accent]
- Decided to put
the band back together
and take it on the road.
So we started looking
for players.
Mark was recommended to us.
He came to my house
and I thought,
"Yeah, this guy's it.
Yeah."
- It's now been
more than 30 years
and Mark is still performing
the hits
with Joey Molland's Badfinger.
[rock guitar music]
[performing "No Matter What"]
§ No matter what you are §
- The songs
still stand up today.
§ I'll always be with you §
§ Doesn't matter
what you do, girl §
§ Ooh girl §
§ With you §
- When he's not touring,
Mark is usually here
in his recording studio.
- § I went looking
for the middle §
§ But all
I could find was the edge §

- The studio keeps me busy
all the time.
I just produced
a guy named Ben Brooks,
who's from Portsmouth, England.
This one that I did for Ben,
he's got Michael Bland
playing drums.
Michael was Prince's drummer.
Gregg Inhofer,
who worked with Bob Dylan,
is the keyboard player.
§ I'll do anything §
§ Anything §
- Mark also engineers
his own music.
- I've got a solo record out.
It's getting
played in 55 countries
between 20,000 and 30,000
air plays,
every three months.
§ I know what I want §
§ I know what to do §

- Molland: He brings energy.
He brings his heart.

- § I'll do anything §

- He brings his voice,
which has improved greatly
over the years, I gotta say.
And...
[laughs]

- A voice that takes lead vocals
on an original Badfinger hit
featuring the Beatles'
George Harrison.

§ I remember finding
out about you §
- Keep your ears open for him
'cause he'll always
be around
and he'll always
be doing something
and it'll always
be something good.
[performing "Day After Day"]
§ My mind is all around you §

§ Looking out of
my lonely gloom §

§ Day after day §

I've found this path
to make my living
and to get through life.

I think things worked out
quite well for me.
You know,
I'm very happy.

[closing notes]
- Thanks a lot, everybody.
Good night to 'ya.
Hope you enjoyed it.
[applause]

- I'm here with Kal<na Niko Lee Daniels, camp co-founder
and Yuntle'kala°ú McLester,
camp director
who are going to
tell us more
about the Music
from our Culture Camp.
How are you ladies doing today?
- Good.
- Great.
- Thank you for having us.
So our first question is
how many people does it take
to run the camp?
- Our camp started in 2005.
And now we, 2017,
we have grown
to four different genres.
In the beginning,
it was just one or two,
which was the Oneida Longhouse
Singers and the Oneida Hymns.
And now we have grown
to the contemporary music,
which we take contemporary songs from the radio
and we implement the Oneida language into the songs.
And then we also have powwow,

which comes
from the Menominee Nation.
Harold is one of our teachers.
And then we have the flute
with Wade Fernandez.
And so we are up
to five different genres now.
- Wow, it sounds like a lot
of staff may be needed
to help teach
all those different genres.
- Of all ages too.
- Why is this camp so important
to children in the community?
- We found that
the importance of this
is more than
just music and language.
It's actually--
We sit on the reservation
in seven different
school districts.
So we have a lot of kids
that don't have any exposure
to their culture or any
exposure to Oneida in general.
So aside from the music
and bringing the hymns
and the Longhouse,
we're incorporating
the language into it
which is very vital for us.
- So what is your absolutely
favorite part about working for
the Music from our Culture Camp?
- So my favorite part is how
the kids start out very young
and then they develop into
these young men and women.
They show gratitude
through singing.
They show gratitude
through the Kanehelatúksla
Thanksgiving address.
There are, I think,
45 to 50 kids that we have now
in this summer camp.
And so they come
eager and ready to learn.
They are, I guess, grateful
in all different ways.
And they really mature into
young men and women
and are displaying
and advertising for us.
Recruiting, they're
recruiting now kids to come,
which is awesome
for the program.
- That is so good.
Being immersed in their
community and their culture
but also building community
at the same time.
- Yeah.
- Thank you so much, ladies.
Next up, we meet a Madison coach
who took his team and favorite
sport to the big leagues.

- Many kids in Green Bay
grow up dreaming
of one day
playing at Lambeau Field.
That was certainly true
of Tim DeByl.
- So I grew up probably
two miles from the stadium
and my family's had
season tickets.
For me,
it was amazing.
Me and my brother
used to go to all the games.
- But in college, Tim
discovered a whole new game:
Ultimate Frisbee.
You've probably
seen it played like this
on a sunny day
in a park.
It's a simple game.
Connect on a pass to a teammate in the end zone to score.
- It's unique to sports I think,
in that
it always requires
two people to have a score.
There's no way to run it in.
There's no way
to throw it to yourself.
There's seven guys.
They all touch the disc.
Everybody needs
to work together to get a score.
I think that's
one of the compelling things
about the sport.
- That cooperative spirit
goes back to Ultimate's origins
in the 1970s counterculture.
An era that also inspired
the name
for Madison's professional
Ultimate team:
the Radicals.
That's right.
Ultimate, the mellow pastime,
has gone pro.
And Tim is playing a huge part as manager, head coach,
and co-owner
of the Madison Radicals.
- Look at the coach-owner setting up the sign.
I don't think that
we ever really thought
that it was
a great business decision.
You know really
this is much more about
having a passion
for the sport.
- A passion that is being shared
by hundreds of fans
who show up at games,

and through live streaming
video coverage.
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- Announcer: We are live
at Breese Stevens Field.
- And it really took off.

There's highlights
all throughout the game.
People are diving
for the Frisbee.
- Come on.
- Let's go.
- They're making great catches,
great throws.
- And while the Radicals
are a passion project for Tim,
it helps that his day job
is running a marketing firm.
- Having marketing skills
in this was a huge advantage
to our franchise.
- The Radicals have been
one of the league's
most successful franchises,
both on the field
and in the stands.

- Fans obviously want to come
out and watch a winning team.
And I think without that,
they might not be as interested
as they are.
- Tim has provided
the hometown fans with a winner.
Going into today's game
against their division rivals,
Pittsburgh Thunderbirds,
the Radicals are unbeaten
at home.
- A 30-game home win streak is somewhat unheard of in sports.
It's kind of an amazing streak
in itself.
And we want to keep it going.
- The streak is
all the more impressive
considering Madison is, by far,
the smallest city in the league,
giving Tim a much more limited
talent pool to draw from.
- There's a bit of a bias towards the bigger cities
like San Francisco
and Dallas and Denver
where there's
a lot more players.
I think our guys
just want to prove
they want to be
in that conversation.
- Like many sports teams
without superstars,
the Radicals have found success
by emphasizing defensive play.
Something Tim learned
from basketball,
especially from legendary
UW-Green Bay Coach Dick Bennett.

- My high school coaches
in basketball
were Dick Bennett fundamentals.
- Announcer: One against four.
Knocked away.
- So he was
always about defense.
- But it was a hard sell
to get an Ultimate team
to work on defense.
- When I would ask,
"Hey,
what's our defensive strategy?"
It generally would be,
"Well, stand near your guy."
We focused half of our practice
on defensive principles.
And I think that was
a big surprise to everybody.
But it proved
to be really successful.
We've been the number one
defensive team every year
in the league.
- Tim's coaching success
is even more impressive
considering that even having
a coach is new to the game.
- We're back, okay,
if it goes in the end zone.
Coaching ultimate players
is really hard.
So most of them didn't
have a high school coaches.
Most of them didn't
have college coaches even.
- But coaching has
become Tim's real passion.
- When I started the AUDL team,
I wanted to be
the general manager.
I thought,
"Well, for the first year,
I'll coach
until we get things going."
And I just, I remembered
how much I love coaching.
I love working with players.
I love the interaction
between coach and players.
And those relationships
that you build.
I think being a coach
is something that I don't want
to give up anytime soon.
- Ra-Ra-Radicals!
- And it even lead
to something Tim never imagined
growing up in Green Bay.

- Announcer:
Let's play Frisbee, gentlemen.
- Ultimate being played
at Lambeau.
The Packers invited the Radicals
to play Ultimate at halftime
on the Frozen Tundra.
- Eighty-thousand people.
The biggest Ultimate game
that's ever been played.
- For me, coming out
of the tunnel was the best part.
The team got to run out of the
tunnel and it was like,
"Wow! This is Lambeau
and it's packed.
And the fans
were really into it,
which was cool too.
It was amazing.
- While Tim didn't
get to play at Lambeau,
he's now done something
even fewer people have achieved.

He got to coach a team there.
- Being able to see them
out there on the field playing,
for me,
was as good as playing.
I knew how much
it meant to the guys.

- Earlier today, I got the
chance to spend some time
with young adults and children
attending the Music
from our Culture Camp.
Here are
a few of the highlights.
[Oneida singing and drumming]

Now this is the type of camp
I wish I had gone to
when I was a kid.
So fun!
Just as fun
as the group of women
our team caught up with
in Milwaukee,
who bring island tunes
to the big city.

- Hello, everybody!
- Group: Hello.
- Everybody, let's hear
your first pitch.
§ Doo, doo, doo, doo §
- This group started and evolved
out of a chorus that I directed.
So what we're going to do now
is we're going to do
a few of our songs.
About eight years ago I said,
"Look, we have to
do simpler music.
"We have to still have fun
"but we really need
to do something
"at a little easier level.
How about I teach
you the ukulele?"
[performing "Walk Right In"]
§ Walk right in §
§ Sit right down §
Hi, I'm Mary Backus.
I am the director
of the Ukuladies.
[singing "Those Were the Days"]
§ Those were the days my friend§
§ We thought they'd never end §
We're located in Milwaukee
and we're a very open group.
§ La, la, la, la, la-la,
la, la, la, la, la-la §
Five years ago,
I would have said,
"We are a group of older
or even elderly women."
I mean I'm 76.
Now we're attracting
younger women as well.
Remember it's very legato,
everything smooth.
I'm a retired music teacher
but I am still teaching.
[singing "Hanalei Moon"]
§ When you see §
§ Hanalei §
The ukulele is--
It's a very easy instrument
to play.
§ You will be §
§ In heaven §
The sound is nice.
We are able to harmonize.

§ Every breeze §
§ Every wave §
I'd say more than 50% come in
and have never sung in a chorus,
never played an instrument.
[ukulele music and singing]
§ Get over §
It's very attractive to women
who want to participate, have
fun, make some fun music.
It's a very democratic group, and do some performing.
We are so happy to be here.
We are so thrilled
to be invited
by Summerfest Seniors
to be here.
This year we went to Summerfest.
[singing "Walk Right In"]
§ Walk right in, sit right down§
§ Daddy, let your mind roll on §
§ Walk right in §
Summerfest was
pretty much a ball.
We really had a good time.
§ Roll on §
I think we kind of represent
a group of women
that are kind of fearless.
They're learning something new.
So if you like to sing
and you're willing
to purchase a little instrument
for $20 to $40
and you want to practice,
you probably qualify
for our group.
And that's how it is.
§ Love me do §
§ Love me true §
§ But you gotta love
my ukulele, too §
§ Oh, yeah §
§ You gotta love
my ukulele toooooo §
[closing notes]
- Group: Whoo!

- It's been a blast
learning about
the arts of the Oneida Nation,
here at the Music
from our Culture Camp.
If you'd like to learn more
about the Oneida Nation,
visit WisconsinLife.org.
And as always, we'd
love to hear from you!
What's your Wisconsin Life?
Tell us by sending an email
to WisconsinLife@wpt.org.
I'll leave you now
with some highlights
of the community performance from the campers we met today
at the Music
from our Culture Camp.
I'm your host, Angela Fitzgerald
and this is our Wisconsin Life.
See you next time.
[singing in Oneida Iroquoian language]

[applause]

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