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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 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 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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    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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    Ho-Chunk Gaming – Wisconsin Dells is a Native American casino and hotel located in the Town of Delton, Wisconsin, between Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo....
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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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    which include tribes traditionally occupying areas around the Great Lakes. Ho-Chunk tradition states that a man who has a vision of a thunderbird during a...
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    "Ho-Chunk Nation adds "Rights of Nature" to their constitution". Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN). Retrieved June 2, 2022. "Ho-Chunk Nation...
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    of human-to-human reincarnation as told by Thunder Cloud, a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) shaman. Here Thunder Cloud talks about his two previous lives and how...
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    Village of Mount Horeb is part of the ancestral territory of the Ho-Chunk nation. Ho-Chunk translates into "People of the Sacred Language," or "People of...
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    found. In some versions, Lodge Boy is moral while Thrown Away is wicked. Ho-Chunk and other Siouan-speaking peoples have a tradition of Red Horn and his...
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  • Potawatomi. Use of the script was subsequently extended to the Siouan language Ho-Chunk (also known as Winnebago). Use of the Great Lakes script has also been...
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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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  • A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery....
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    British Band (redirect from Pama-ho)
    women, and children from the Sauk, Meskwaki, Fox, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Ottawa nations; about 500 of that number were warriors. Black Hawk...
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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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    County, Nebraska. The other federally recognized Winnebago tribe is the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. The Winnebago Reservation is on land that originally...
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    Winnebago War (category Ho-Chunk)
    American civilians by a portion of the Winnebago (or Ho-Chunk) Native American tribe. The Ho-Chunks were reacting to a wave of lead miners trespassing on...
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    along 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...
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  • Winnebago can refer to: The exonym of the Ho-Chunk tribe of Native North Americans with reservations in Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe of...
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    abolished the eastern Dakota and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) reservations in Minnesota, and in May 1863, the eastern Dakota and Ho-chunk imprisoned at Fort Snelling...
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    'beautiful', although the lake was originally named by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) 'Tchee-ho-bo-kee-xa-te-la' or 'Teepee Lake'. Lake Monona rests at 43°4′9″N...
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    term Devil's Lake is a misinterpretation of the Ho-Chunk name Te Wakącąk or Te Wakącągara. Day-wa-kahn-chunk-gera, which better translates to "Sacred Lake"...
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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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    June 20. Ahead of the main party of militia, a small band of U.S. allied Ho-Chunk warriors had been sent ahead to scout the area with Pierre Pauquette, a...
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    family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk tribes. Historically, the Otoe tribe lived as a semi-nomadic people on...
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    British in operations around the Great Lakes. Most were from the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Kickapoo, and Ottawa tribes. Black Hawk and his band of about 200 Sauk...
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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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  • the Chiwere division of the Siouan language family, together with the Ho-Chunk, Winnebago, Iowa, and Otoe. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the...
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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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