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A census in 1846 reported 4,400 people but by 1848, there were reportedly 2,500. Like other Native American tribes, the Ho-Chunk suffered great losses during the smallpox epidemics of 1757–58 and 1836. In the 19th-century epidemic, they lost nearly a quarter of their population. [17] Today the Ho-Chunk population is about 12,000.
In January 2015, the United States' Federal Register issued an official list of 566 tribes that are Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. [5] The number of tribes increased to 567 in July 2015 with the federal recognition of the Pamunkey tribe in Virginia. [6]
Haudenosauneega, Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga [74] ("Land of the People who are Building a Long House"), Aquanishuonigy [75] Iroquoia, the Iroquois Country, [76] the Country of the Confederate Indians, [75] the Country of the Five Nations, [77] the Country of the Six Nations. [78] The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to reclaim its reservation in Illinois for nearly 200 years.
American Indian reservations in Ohio (1 C) Pages in category "Native American tribes in Ohio" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Ho-Chunk peoples, also known as the Winnebago — a Native American tribe of the Category:Great Lakes tribes, in the northern United States. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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 ...
There is also a chance that a Siouan people called the Keyauwee, who appear alongside the Tutelo (an Eastern Siouan tribe from West Virginia) in North Carolina around 1700 could also have been of Fort Ancient stock. During the time of the French explorers, a Ho-chunk native named Tonti told them that these people had been known as the Chonque. [20]