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Addressing Land Conflict Issues
by Bringing Diverse Communities
Together through Discourse
The “Communities in Conflict” component of the BB program focuses on communities which experience conflicts over land rights. The objective is to improve the understanding of people in such communities of different perspectives on these rights. This theme is being piloted through the production of a 34 minute video documentary “Legend Lake: A Talking Circle” filmed in Menominee County, Wisconsin, The video is accompanied by a curriculum for helping secondary school and college teachers use the video in their classes as well as a study guide for supporting community discussions about the themes of the film and reference materials for the use of researchers.
The film recounts the saga of Legend Lake, a beautiful 5,160 acre lake development, formed by joining 9 smaller lakes in the Menominee Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin whose shore-land was subdivided and sold mostly to non-Menominee people. Legend Lake represents another chapter in the long and contentious relationship between American Indians and non-Indians in Wisconsin.
Why and how the lake came into being, what land issues have arisen and what might be done to manage them is the subject of this film and related reference materials which build on the film’s themes. While the film is instructive in its own right, the complete packet of study materials provides teachers, students and community members with more information for greater understanding of the differing perspectives on land in the Legend Lake area.
Terra Institute has supported the efforts of the director and writer of the film, Mark Anthony Rolo, the photographer and editor, Robert Breitenbach, and several Menominee and non-Menominee people to express their different perspectives on the Legend Lake development. A focus group involving teachers from local schools and the University of Wisconsin devised a draft curriculum and a set of reference materials which were further developed by Casey Meehan and Katherine Arnold. Additional financial support was received from the Wisconsin Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the preparation of the completed curriculum.
The film and accompanying materials offer no solutions. They do not take sides. But they do demonstrate that people with different life histories are willing to respect each other and learn from each other and even come to an agreement as to possible courses of action.
The Wisconsin Humanities Council supports and creates programs that use history, culture, and discussion to strengthen community life for everyone in Wisconsin.
Available now!
Online Viewing of the documentary video:
“Legend Lake: A Talking Circle”
Free Download Available - Study Guide Materials including: Legend Lake Curriculum and Chronology with Reference DocumentsOR
Purchase by Mail Order
2 DVD Set (Documentary and Study Guide Materials)
$10.00
Click here for order form and payment instructions
This 2 DVD set is intended for use in educational and community settings. The set includes Disc One which is the 34 minute video documentary. Disc Two contains study materials including: an Introduction and Producer Notes for all viewers of the video; a Curriculum for Teachers using the video; and a Community Discussion Guide for community viewing and discussion of the video. There is also a Chronology which presents a brief summary of significant events in the history of Legend Lake. The Chronology also makes links with Reference Documents which provide more details about the events cited in the Chronology. In most cases we have included original historical documents rather than interpretations of such documents.
If you want more information or wish to support this effort, please contact Lynn Burns at Terra Institute: lburns@terrainstitute.org or
+(608) 437-8716
