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[woodlibraryteens]

Today is national library workers day! Help us celebrate our amazing staff by voting for us for the RRLC Library of the year! Link to vote is in our bio, and be sure to think about what you write- what you say counts more than just a vote! #rrlc #libraryoftheyear (at Wood Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwC-EPzA9Y4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6ddteg4gan5z

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Across the Northwoods, a geography that spans the U.S.–Canada border, stories are used to make and claim space. They are tools of placemaking. Throughout northern Minnesota, legends of Paul Bunyan, the fictional giant lumberjack, have been used to claim space. [...] Bunyan has been credited with creating Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Grand Canyon while simultaneously logging millions of acres of forests. From numerous roadside statues to Paul Bunyan Land, to the Paul Bunyan Historical Museum, to the Paul Bunyan Water Park, to the Paul Bunyan State Trail, he is everywhere. His overwhelming presence and visibility expose the ways settler nostalgia informs public memory, past and present. Paul Bunyan’s mythical connections to place(s), as seen in these settler colonial contexts across the U.S., are outgrowths of German settler nostalgia. He acts as a cultural connector, linking a celebrated history of logging across the Northwoods to the spread of German forestry. [...] Paul Bunyan’s literal and figurative imaginings advance American Indian erasure narratives, leading to the invisibility of these same communities today. At the same time, Paul Bunyan narratives underscore the tensions of Indigenous claims to place and settler placemaking. [...]

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The Northwoods have been popularized and imagined as America’s version of northern Europe. Indeed, most nineteenth-century settlers to Minnesota were from what became Germany in 1871. Census records confirm ethnic Germans and their descendants were “by far the largest foreign-stock group” in Minnesota through the twentieth century [...]. Across Minnesota, towns like New Ulm, New Munich, Heidelberg, and Luxemburg bear witness to the ways German settlers have conferred familiar and meaningful place-names to new environments. Here, settler colonialism meets autochthony, as German settlers sought ways to situate themselves on this landscape. Autochthony, a Greek term literally meaning “born from the soil,” denotes a particularly strong claim to place. More recently, Native scholars Michael Dockry and Christopher Caldwell have examined the Menominee Nation’s use of autochthony as “the belief that the Menominee people originated from the land near where they currently reside ... and the Menominee people’s profound sense of place and their intimate relationship with place.” [...] German settlers used “autochthony to describe a territorial claim or to control the land,” as reflected in forest management techniques. Together, folkloric tradition and forestry practice have inscribed settler belonging while displacing and replacing historically accurate Indigenous claims to space.

Paul Bunyan narratives glorify a time when Indian people were removed and dispossessed, and their timber-rich lands destroyed by logging. [...] Paul Bunyan State Forest encapsulates the material legacy of symbolic myth. The forest, named after a fictional clear-cutting logger, highlights the paradoxical claims to autochthony that undergird the retellings of his tales. Officially recognized in 1935, the Paul Bunyan State Forest evolved from the site of the Red River Lumber Company sawmill. Founded in 1884, the Red River Lumber Company (RRLC) directly participated in and contributed to Ojibwe dispossession. By the end of the nineteenth century, the RRLC had purchased most of the land that comprises the present-day Paul Bunyan State Forest, milling millions of board feet of lumber at the company town of Akeley. [...] With logging long established throughout the Great Lakes region, the ecological damage was clear. To remedy this, in the mid-1930s (German) forestry was introduced to manage timber on a sustained yield basis. This, then, is the irony of the Paul Bunyan State Forest: named for an American legend who is said to have literally cleared the path for settlement, forest management now proposes to maintain the integrity of the forest. While today the importance of forests is well-recognized beyond the sale of timber, the underlying premise remains tied to resource extraction and economic development. Forestry strives to maintain forest spaces in perpetuity. [...]. This makes the ethos of Paul Bunyan, not just his name, a permanent fixture of Minnesota’s forest geography. [...]

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Though Paul Bunyan narratives dominate the landscape of the Northwoods, if we look closely we can see the ways Native people resist the legendary exploits. Indeed, a lesser-known Ojibwe oral story reminds us that the Anishinaabe people, their culture, and their histories will always prevail over dispossession and logging. In the story, Nanabozho, an Ojibwe trickster or cultural figure, confronts Paul Bunyan, who had already logged off most of the northeastern states before making his way to Minnesota. Nanabozho tells Paul to leave, to not log any more timber. A fight ensues, and after forty days and nights, Nanabozho swings a Red Lake walleye at Paul, knocking him off his feet. As Paul stumbles, Nanabozho pulls at Paul’s whiskers, making him promise to leave the area. This is why, today, Paul Bunyan does not have a beard and why he is facing west at the statue on Lake Bemidji, as he prepares to leave the region. This is also why we have the Chippewa National Forest, because Nanabozho and his Ojibwe kinsmen saved it from being logged. It is this contemporary narrative that highlights the complexity of Ojibwe storytelling and Ojibwe cultural survival and renewal.

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Text, images, and captions published by: Kasey Keeler and Ryan Hellenbrand. “Paul Bunyun and Settler Nostalgia in the Northwoods.” Edge Effects. 2 December 2021.

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Passersby Sometimes I absent-mindedly write your name on any surface Or trace the contours of your lovely face on strangers. As if they could shine in the dark Or beckon you back to me. Dreams, memories and love Became passersby behind my eyes. Travelers unannounced But always welcomed. They never fail to return, Warming my cold bad days And painting my bright good days. Unlike when I waited for you And yet you decided to say goodbye. -RRLC Illustration by Ina Stinimirova #poems #doodles #drawings #memories #love #dreams #waiting

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✝️ Vers des Tages . . . . #bibel #bibellesen #bible #jesus #christus #christsein #christlich #christian #bible #katholisch #evangelisch #neuestestament #altestestament #exegese #bibelexegese #theologie #apostel #heiligeschrift #holycross #biblequote #bibelzitat #zitat #beten #gebet #pray #prayer #apostel #disciples #apostelgeschichte #evangelium (hier: Vienna, Austria) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3R-RrLC-B9/?igshid=26pjdghxcb38

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[woodlibraryteens]

The Rochester Regional Library Council recognizes outstanding libraries each year based on votes and recommendations from people like you! Starting on Monday, April 7, you will be able to cast a vote for your favorite library...and we hope you will vote for Wood Library! We'll post the link for voting to this page, so be watching for it. We are so grateful for all of the support that this community shows for Wood Library. Thank you! #rrlc #libraryoftheyear (at Wood Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv4Q89HghyY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eqp5v71vavxj

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EARPHONES Sometimes I envy those earphones. They got the freedom to sing to you. How intimate a whisper can be? As there are lyrics in my heart Still seeking the right notes. How can your footsteps be so comforting? Your whistle the sound I miss in silence. Your voice like milk poured in a glass And your laughter like the gentle rain in summer. Every sound of you I memorized But will you ever hear me? -RRLC #lovesonnet #earphones #poems 🎧🎶🎼🎹🎷🎸🔊🎻🎺🎤

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Wednesday at RRLC

Training day at RRLC - a very attentive class. We are learning about social media and asking a lot of questions.  One is about Google.

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