Recent Videos and Activities tagged with Ho-Chunk

Wisconsin Life, Bronson Koenig

Bronson Koenig is a standout sophomore basketball player with the University of Wisconsin Basketball team. He is also a proud member of the Ho-Chunk Nation who takes pride in his Native [more]

June 21, 2018

Place-Based Education

Place-based education (PBE) immerses students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences, using these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other [more]

October 17, 2017

The Ways, Language Apprentice: Bringing Back the Ho-Chunk Language

Arlene Blackdeer, a language apprentice for the Hoocak Waaziija Haci Language Division of the Ho-Chunk Nation, shares her experience in her community’s effort to bring back the Ho-Chunk language. The [more]

October 2, 2017

Tribal Histories, Ho-Chunk History

By the banks of the Lemonweir River in what for ages had been Ho-Chunk territory, Andy Thundercloud shares the oral tradition of his people. Thundercloud tells of a traveling people [more]

October 1, 2017

Ho-Chunk Nation

Brief History The Ho-Chunk are one of two of the First Nations of Wisconsin with an oral history that places their origin in Wisconsin at Móogašuc, or the Red Banks.  [more]

August 16, 2017