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Ho-Chunk verbs are inflected with eight pronominal categories marked for person and clusivity. [5] Ho-Chunk is a pro-drop language; pronouns are used very infrequently, and information on grammatical person is found on the verb in the form of one or more prefixes. First person singular (abbreviated 1SG) Second person singular (abbreviated 2SG)
Chief Waukon Decorah in 1825. The Ho-Chunk speak a Siouan language, which they believe was given to them by their creator, Mą’ųna (Earthmaker). [citation needed] Their native name is Ho-Chunk (or Hoocạk), which has been variously translated as "sacred voice" or "People of the Big Voice", meaning mother tongue, as in they originated the Siouan language family.
In 1975 Wayne and Elena Leman, of Wycliffe Bible Translators, started a translation of the Bible from the original languages into colloquial Cheyenne. (Petter's translation is in a more formal, literal style). Their translation has the complete text for Luke, Philippians, 1 Peter, 1 John as well as portions from other books.
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.
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 ...
Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics (or Great Lakes Aboriginal syllabics, [1] also referred to as "Western Great Lakes Syllabary" by Campbell [2]) is a writing system for several Algonquian languages that emerged during the nineteenth century and whose existence was first noted in 1880. [3]
Reuben Alvis Snake Jr. (1937–1993) [2] was an American Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) activist, educator, spiritual leader, and tribal leader. [3] [4] He served as a leader within the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, [3] and in the National Congress of American Indians in the 1980s. [3]
For example, the traditional territory of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Nation is called Waaziija, meaning "the Grand Pinery." In English, the land of an indigenous nation was historically, and sometimes still is, referred to as a "country," such as "(the) Winnebago country."