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The Ho-Chunk Nation is headquartered in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. [5] With the adoption of its most recent constitution in 1994, which restored the tribe's name for itself, the Ho-Chunk Nation, the modern tribal government structured itself after the federal and state governments, with executive, legislative and judicial branches.
The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, which at one time consisted primarily of tribal members spread over 13 counties of Wisconsin, have a historical territorial claim in an area encompassed by a line from Green Bay to Long Prairie to St. Louis to Chicago. Some in the federal and state governments have undermined the Ho-Chunk land claims; however ...
Indian Heights is an unincorporated community located in the town of Lyndon, Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States. Indian Heights is located on County Highway N near Interstate 90, Interstate 94, and U.S. Route 12, 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Lyndon Station. [2] The community is part of the Ho-Chunk Nation. [3]
These treaties, accompanied by colonizing pressure and xenophobic fears rising from the Dakota War of 1862, forced the tribe West from their land across the Mississippi River. Currently, the tribe has no reservation, rather, 8,800 acres, located throughout twenty counties in western Wisconsin, are held by the 7,100 members of the Ho-Chunk. [6] [7]
Paac Ciinak is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 83. [2] On older federal topographic maps, the community is shown as Potch-Chee-Nunk or Potch Che Nunk. [3] The community is in western Shawano County, on land of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.
The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin received $5.2 million, which will be used to build 11 housing units. The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians was awarded $5.8 million, which will be ...
The Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation had been trying to reclaim its reservation in Illinois for nearly 200 years. Wisconsin Ho-Chunk help create only tribal reservation in Illinois for ...
The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, also referred to as the Winnebago, were some of the early residents in the Green Lake Area. [3] Green Lake, also known as Daycholah, is a spiritual place for the Winnebago. One legend describes how one must bring gifts for the Water Spirit that lives under the lake in order to enter. [4]