The
The
Ho-Chunk/Winnebago
Ho-Chunk/Winnebago
Tribe
Tribe
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An average Ho-Chunk family
CULTURE
CULTURE
The Ho-Chunks are a siouan tribe and they originally lived in the Green Bay part of Wisconsin. The men wore clothes such as bearskins and pants. Women wore deerskin dresses. The Ho-chunks house were made out of birch bark and wood. Most men would hunt and fish. Women would cook, clean, wash clothes and make the beds. Most weapons are split into two categories hunting weapons and war weapons. The weapons were usually bows, arrows and spears. The tribe had pretty much normal weather except for having extremely cold winters. They are a settled tribe for originally living in Wisconsin.
HISTORY
HISTORY
The Ho-Chunk/Winnebago arrived in Kentucky at 500 BC and by 500 AD. They arrived by what is now Wisconsin. In the 1620’s the Winnebago tribe fought another tribe. The Winnebago tribe signed their first treaty with the USA in 1816 and signed boundary and cession treaties in the 1820s and 1830s. These treaties resulted in land loss of most of the tribal land. The tribe was moved to what was now Northeast Iowa, to Minnesota to South Dakota, and finally to their current location in Nebraska where the Winnebago indian Reservation was established by the treaties of 1865 and 1874. Following this displacement to the treeless plains of South Dakota. The actual meaning of the Winnebago tribe is dirty water.
TODAY
TODAY
In the early 1800s, the Ho-chunk/Winnebago population was estimated to be about 2,900. Today their population ranges from 7,000 - 12,000 people. There are two tribes that make up the Ho-chunk/Winnebago Nation. These are the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The tribe's main revenue comes from casinos. The money from the casinos pays for economic development, infrastructure, health care and education.
In 1994, the tribe created an economic development corporation. It has been very successful in supporting small businesses, creating jobs, and building homes on the reservation.
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