St. Croix Heritage

Ojibwe Prayer Commemorating Gaylord Nelson

by St. Croix Scenic Byway on June 9, 2013

Ojibwe PrayerSpoken by Rusty Barber, Vice Chairman of the Tribal Governing Board of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe.  Rusty is grandson of Bill Barber who guided former Minnesota and Wisconsin Senators Walter Mondale and Gaylord Nelson, respectively, on a canoe trip down the Namekagon River in 1965.

By 1968,  Mondale and Nelson had authored and were successful in passing federal legislation to protect the Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers.  The St. Croix National Scenic River was one of the first eight rivers protected under the 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

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Lucia Celebration in Swedish

by St. Croix Scenic Byway on June 9, 2013

Lucia Celebration in SwedishEach year in early December, Gammelgården Museum in Scandia celebrates Lucia Dagen.  The celebration of Lucia brings light to the very dark days of December and marks the beginning of the Swedish Christmas season.

This is a recording of a brief Lucia Swedish prayer service held at Gammelgården in the Gammel Krykan, oldest Lutheran church in Minnesota, built in 1856.  Each year following the prayer service a Swedish breakfast with traditional Swedish music is held in the Scandia Community Center.

Lucia Celebration in Swedish

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