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The Ho-Chunk Nation speaks Ho-Chunk language (Hocąk), which is a Chiwere-Winnebago language, part of the Siouan-Catawban language family. [2] With Hocąk speakers increasingly limited to a declining number of elders, the tribe has created a Language Division within the Heritage Preservation Department aimed at documenting and teaching the ...
Finally, through a special act of congress, the Ho-Chunk Nation took control of the 1500 acre parcel in 2015. This is regarded as the first time that the United States' military has ever returned land to an indigenous people. [51] Today, the Ho-Chunk Nation is restoring the prairie that was present at the site before European settlement. [52]
The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska (Ho-Chunk: Nįįšoc Hoocąk) [4] is one of two federally recognized tribes of Ho-Chunk, along with the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. Tribe members often refer to themselves as Hochungra – "People of the Parent Speech" in their own language, a member of the Siouan family.
Additionally, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin owns off-reservation trust land in Houston County, just outside of La Crescent. [2] See also
The Ho-Chunk Nation Supreme Court ruled against the tribe's president on Wednesday in a budget dispute with the tribe's legislature.
This legislation represents how Washington should work — two members of Congress with a shared heritage (both Reps. Davids and Cole are enrolled tribal members of the Ho-Chunk Nation of ...
Ho-Chunk Village Statue Garden, Winnebago, NE In 1992 the federally recognized tribe established the WinnaVegas Casino to generate revenues and provide employment. Its council had already legalized alcohol sales on the reservation, in order to keep the revenues from sales taxes and associated fees that its residents had previously paid through ...
Elder members of the Ho-Chunk Nation gathered Tuesday in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to record the tribe’s language to preserve the history for the next generation.