Mid-West Regions of the United States

MIDWESTERN LANDMARKS Mt. Rushmore Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie Mississippi River Tornado Alley Black Hills Missouri River Ohio River Shedd Aquarium Alder Planetarium

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MIDWESTERN GEOGRAPHY

BLACK HILLS

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G r e a t P l a i n s

Ozark Mountains

Ohio

Wisconsin

Michigan

MichiganMinnesota

N. Dakota

S. Dakota

Nebraska

Kansas

IndianaIllinoisIowa

MissouriM

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Missouri River

Ohio River

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Chicago

L. Superior

L. Huron

L. Erie

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THE WITCH

There was a woman named Stoskopf that is under a ball.

She was abused by her husband and kids and one day she poisoned the well and

that killed her sons and her husband.

She threw their bodies down the well.

After that, people thought she was practicing witchcraft.

Her neighbors started to lose animals like cats and dogs and chickens.

They broke into her barn and there was a table full of animal bones and one man

found his lost dog’s collar in the fire pit.

The next day they tied the witch to a stake and burned her to ashes then they

buried the ashes 11 feet underground then put a 500 pound ball as a gravestone to

make sure she stays in.

In Ohio, a manor that was a funeral home.

People think there is a portal there. It was also a hospital.

There are a lot of deaths and suicides.

A man was shot and bled to death on the doorstep.

A person claims that a vortex appeared for 7 moments before disappearing.

FOLKLORE

MIDWEST MUSICM U S I C A N D C U LT U R E O F T H E M I D W E S T

Culture of the mid west• Ojibwe Indians• Indians used to control mostly about

70% of the mid west • Most Indians in the twelfth century

would sing at the fire and tell folk tales

• Most Indians new how to survive by themselves

• Polka music • Midwest

instruments include• Guitar• Harmonica• Violin • Fettle• Trumpet • clarinet • drums

• The mid west has music festivals • Most music fests are in the summer• In Indiana at the beginning of the festival they fly jets

across the sky and sing the pledge of allegiance• In Illinois they play mostly jazz • In Ohio they have pro football players at the hall of

fame • In Michigan they have a summer film festival• In Minnesota they play a summer Bay Front blues

festivals• Wisconsin holds the Milwaukee summer festival

MUSIC FESTIVALS OF THE MID WEST