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Boozhoo!

For the duration of the summer, the library is offering prizes for reading books!

There are a few options here:

1. You or your child(ren) can pick up a prize tracker in the library and earn a new prize at every milestone.
2. You can track your books with a reading list from the library or with your own system. Every book you read gets you a ticket for a chance at a special gift basket with sage and sweetgrass and other Native art and gifts, curated in collaboration with the team at Birchbark Books.
3. Some combination, maybe you don’t want a slap bracelet or a keychain but you do want that Culver’s treat or a Lego set: you can pass on any specific prizes and get a ticket for the gift basket instead.

A note to parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles, older siblings, friends: if you read a book to a child this summer, that counts! Take the point! You read that too.

And remember: audiobooks, ebooks, and graphic novels are still books. They count. You could probably even count a 50,000-word Wattpad story if it really held your interest. 

The library is open 11am-5pm during the week, and 10am-1pm on some Saturdays. 

The Wisconsin Historical Society is pleased to host another season of Canoe Journeys at Madeline Island Museum. 

Canoe Journeys 
Indoozhitoomin 1854 Treaty Jiimaan – We Are Making An 1854 Treaty Canoe

The 2026 Canoe Journeys program highlights Ojibwe history and Big Lake connections to the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior and the relationship with Mooningwanekaaning (Madeline Island) from the very beginning to the present day.

Beginning July 18, Red Cliff Ojibwe Elder and master canoe builder Marvin DeFoe will make a birchbark canoe that honors the signatories to the 1854 Treaty at La Pointe. Chief Buffalo led the negotiations between the United States and Ojibwe tribes in an effort to stop removals and create permanent homelands for the Lake Superior Ojibwe in the Lake Superior region. This summer’s Canoe Journeys Program begins July 18. The canoe build will run approximately 20 days.  

Marvin DeFoe and the Wisconsin Historical Society staff respectfully invite Tribal leadership, THPOs, Museum Directors, and Elders to visit the Island during the Canoe build.

An opening ceremony will start at 10 a.m. on July 19^th followed by a feast at noon.

All are welcome to attend and also visit during the course of the canoe build.

Camp Onji-Akiing Announcement

Summer Camp for our Bad River youth ages 10-14.

For Applications please follow the link below:
http://www.badriver-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260624_FY26-Onji-Akiing-Full-Application.pdf