• The Ho-Chunk language (Hoocąk, Hocąk), also known as Winnebago, is the language of the Ho-Chunk people of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Winnebago...
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    The Ho-Chunk, also known as Hocąk, Hoocągra, or Winnebago are a Siouan-speaking Native American people whose historic territory includes parts of Wisconsin...
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    The Ho-Chunk Nation (Ho-Chunk language: Hoocąk) is a federally recognized tribe of the Ho-Chunk with traditional territory across five states in the United...
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  • The Hocągara (Ho-Chungara) or Hocąks (Ho-Chunks) are a Siouan-speaking Native American Nation originally from Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Due to...
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    Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska (Ho-Chunk: Nįįšoc Hoocąk) is one of two federally recognized tribes of Ho-Chunk, along with the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. Tribe...
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    Winnebago, Nebraska (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    for themselves (autonym) is Ho-Chunk; they have a reservation in the county. The village is Nįšoc in the Hoocąk language. Winnebago is located within...
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    Black River Falls, Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    523 at the 2020 census. It is home to the administrative center of the Ho-Chunk Nation. Black River Falls was founded to utilize the waterpower of the...
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    New Lisbon, Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    census. The site of New Lisbon was used as a seasonal winter encampment by Ho-Chunk people, who called it Waac Hot’ųp Ra or Waac Hožu Ra (anglicized to Wa...
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    Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    voyageur French. Wisconsin Dells is located on ancestral Ho-Chunk and Menominee land. The Ho-Chunk name for Wisconsin Dells is Nįįš hakiisųc, meaning "rocks...
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    Jean Nicolet (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    these shores were called Ho-Chunk, which some French mistakenly translated as "People of the Sea". In the Ho Chunk language, it means people of the big...
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    Green Bay, Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    occupied this territory. He also met the Ho-Chunk (also known as the Winnebago), a people who spoke a Siouan language. The Winnebago hunted and fished, and...
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    Neenah, Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    "running water". It was the site of a Ho-Chunk village in the late 18th century. It is Nįįňą in the Hoocąk language. The government initially designated...
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    Janesville, Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    combined statistical area. The area that became Janesville was the site of a Ho-Chunk village named Įnį poroporo (Round Rock) up to the time of Euro-American...
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  • Kinnikinnick (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    Puke weed "kiniginige" in Frederic Baraga A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language. Minnesota Historical Society Press (St. Paul, MN: 1992). ISBN 0-87351-281-2...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    ts'qáyex̱iya Heiltsuk–Oowekyala: kvənn̓à Haíɫzaqv: kvṇ̓á Hidatsa: nagcúa Ho-Chunk: jająksík Kaska: tets'ūtl'ęhį̄ Koasati: sa•kih•pa Kutenai: ʔinuya Kwak̓wala:...
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    Wauzeka, Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    veteran John McHarg. It was named after a Native American leader whose Ho-Chunk name, Waaziga, means Pine Tree. The village was connected to the Milwaukee...
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    Wisconsin, United States. The name "Wazee" means "tall pine" in the Ho-Chunk language. The artificial lake is the deepest lake within the state of Wisconsin...
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  • a federally recognized tribe group in the state The Winnebago language of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe Winnebago (chicken), a 19th-century American...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Nebraska (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    Origin Myth". Ho-Chunk Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved May 5, 2024. "míⁿ-qu-ga". Omaha Language Dictionary data...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Wisconsin (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    in some of these tribes. The Ho-Chunk people have traditionally recognized two-spirit individuals, known in their language as teją́cowįga (pronounced [teˈdʒãtʃowĩga])...
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    Algonquin language, and many could speak multiple languages within those groups. The large Winnebago force, however, spoke the Ho-Chunk language from the...
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  • Velar ejective fricative (category Articles containing Ho-Chunk-language text)
    ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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    residence hall at the university. Teejop means "Four Lakes" in the Ho-Chunk language, and Native Americans have used this word to describe the Madison...
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    delivered a conciliatory speech in his native Ho-Chunk language, assuming Pauquette and his band of Ho-Chunk guides were still with the militia at Wisconsin...
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    French. In the Menominee language, the river is known as Meskwahkīw-Sīpiah, which means "Red Earth River". In the Ho-Chunk language (Winnebago, Hoocąk, Hocąk)...
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    States. The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk tribes. Historically...
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    delivered a conciliatory speech in his native Ho-Chunk language, assuming Pauquette and his band of Ho-Chunk guides were still with the militia. However...
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    city in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. Its name derives from the Ho-Chunk word, "Nįįkuusra", "Nakrusa", or "Nįkusara" which translates to "running...
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    and colonies largely unprotected with the absence of the militia. Some Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi warriors took part in these raids, although most tribe members...
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  • Lila Greengrass Blackdeer (category Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin people)
    as Masuhijajawiga, was an American maker of black ash baskets, in the Ho-Chunk tradition. She was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship in 1999. Lila...
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