Good Morning World!!

Today we're headed to Michigan. Have a great story about your home state? Want to join the discussion? Head over to our Facebook group called "What Makes Your State Great". We're looking to support all the states in reverse order of becoming a state and keeping a day ahead of the DC40 Prayer Initiative.

As always most of my facts come from 50states.com.

Let's get this party rolling...

Hail Michigan!


Detroit is known as the car capital of the world. The Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit manufactured the first air-conditioned car in 1939.



Michigan is first in the United States production of peat and magnesium compounds and second in gypsum and iron ore.


The Mackinac Bridge is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. Connecting the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, it spans 5 miles over the Straits of Mackinac, which is where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet. The Mighty Mac took 3 years to complete and was opened to traffic in 1957.


One famous filmmaker/author from Michigan is Michael Moore. Born in Flint Michigan, Micheal has created films called Bowling for Columbine, Sicko and Fahrenheit 9/11.

http://www.native-languages.org/michigan.htm

The original inhabitants of Michigan are:

The Fox and Sauk tribes

The Kickapoo tribe
The Menominee tribe
The Miami tribe
The Ojibwe tribe (also known as Chippewa, Ojibway, or Ojibwa)
The Potawatomi tribe

These tribes arrived later to Michigan.
The Huron tribe (also known as the Wyandot)
The Ottawa tribe

I found the following video on youtube. It was created to show support for two Ojibwa who were arrested at Eagle Rock for protesting mining there. More info on their fight can be found here

Stand for the Land blog
http://www.standfortheland.com



Just like these people have shown courage to stand up and fight for our land, we too should defend her. We should understand pollution, war and death. We should help our fellow earthlings. We should not take rights from others, we should not destroy their culture or remove their rights to practice their religion freely and to simply live.


Namaste & Blessed Be
Sosanna
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Happy Saturday! Today we're setting our sights on DC40's next target. The great state of Wisconsin.

If you'd like to add your comments about Wisconsin you can do that here, or head over to the Facebook group "What Makes Your State Great?". There will be lively discussion, posts and comments all around each of the DC40 targets through out the rest of the month and into the first part of November. We welcome facts, figures, photos and well wishers of all types and from any or no religion.

As always my facts come from 50states.com. 


 Now let's get moving.





Hail Wisconsin!

Wisconsin visitors and residents enjoy the state's 7,446 streams and rivers. End-to-end they'd stretch 26,767 miles. That is more than enough to circle the globe at the equator. Wisconsin's Door County has five state parks and 250 miles of shoreline along Lake Michigan. These figures represent more than any other county in the country.


The House on the Rock was designed and built in the early 1940s. It is considered an architectural marvel and is perched on a 60-foot chimney of rock. The 14-room house is now a complex of rooms, streets, buildings, and gardens covering over 200 acres. The Infinity Room contains 3,264 windows.

Wisconsin produces more milk than any other state. Monroe is the Swiss Cheese Capital of the World. Sheboygan is the Bratwurst Capital of the World. Milwaukee is home of Harley Davidson Motorcycles.

The origins of the word “Milwaukee” are disputed; it may come from the Potawatomi “Mahn-ah-wauk,” meaning council grounds of the Potawatomi; “Mah-an-wauk-seepe,” meaning gathering place of rivers; or the Algonquian “Milo-aki,” meaning beautiful land.

Read more: Milwaukee, Wis. — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108558.html#ixzz1bVsh3DHA


Green Bay is Wisconsin's oldest city and the home of the reigning Super Bowl Champs - Green Bay Packers.
The name "Wisconsin" is an Algonquian Indian word from the Ojibwe name for the Wisconsin River, Wishkonsing.

http://www.native-languages.org/wisconsin.htm

The original inhabitants of Wisconsin are:

The Dakota Sioux tribe

The Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe

The Menominee tribe

The Ojibwe tribe (also known as Chippewa, Ojibway, or Ojibwa)

The Potawatomi tribe

The Fox and Sauk tribes


Today I'm including a video from youtube called "Ojibwe Prayer Song". The poster says there are only pictures of the Ojibwe tribe in the video. The music is wonderful.






As we look at today, think about what we want to be remember. Send out positive energy, send out happiness and prayers for the future. Sending light and love to the great state of Wisconsin.

Namaste & Blessed Be!
Sosanna
)O(

Happy Thursday!! Today our next stop on the DC-40 Prayer siege is the great state of Minnesota. Please feel free to post your comments, updates or salutes here on this blog, or head over to our Facebook Group - What Makes Your State Great - and add them there.

As always my state facts come from 50states.com.

Let's get moving...

Hail Minnesota!


Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables. Tonka Trucks were developed and are continued to be manufactured in Minnetonka.




Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. Minnesota produces corn, wheat, rye, alfalfa, and sugar beets. Other leading farm products include butter, eggs, milk, potatoes, green peas, barley, soybeans, oats, and livestock.



The original inhabitants of Minnesota were:

The Dakota Sioux tribe
The Ojibwe tribe (also known as Chippewa, Ojibway, or Ojibwa)

Waasa Inabidaa: We Look in All Directions



Learning who we are and were we came from will guide us in where we are going.

Namaste & Blessed Be
Sosanna
)O(