Ho-Chunk+Indians-RCW

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History of the tribe: The Ho-Chuck tribe originated at Red Banks on the south shore of Green Bay.The Ho-Chunk's have never left this village since they came there over thousands of years ago.They originally came here from the bering land bridge

Clothing:They wore many parts of clothing reletive to the rejoin. the men of the ho-chunk wore soft sole deer skin mocissin with a rounded toe. for the women however they wore dear skin moccasins with a square toe.The Mens daliy attire was a breach cloth, leggins, and moccisons during the summer. they wore robes in the winter. all of these peices of clothing were made from tanned deer skin

Food: The Hochunk people mostly hunt,grow there own food, fish, and gather there food in the woods of wisconsin.when they did grow there own food the made corn, beans, and squash. When they wentto gather food they mostly got wild rice, berries, nuts, and fruit.The fruit of the region is very ubundent and has many varietis of fruit such as, black and red rasberrys, grapes, cherries,and cranberries which were apart of there everyday diet.They hunted many different knid of animals for many different reasons. they hunted mostly deer and moose and that was there main meat diet.They also hunted foxes and wolfs for eating. they also hunted smaller animals such as beavers, otters, muscrates, racoon, wolverines, and rabbit for there fur.

Reilion: The Ho-Chunk belived alot in there ancestor and the spirits of the woods. there main spirit or the "Earth-Maker" is called manido. they also belive in the spirits of the sun, moon, thunder,lighting, the four wind and thunderbirds. they often offer tobacco to the spirits to insure good heath and protection from storms for the tribe. They also have ceremoneys for many reasons. A ceremony they do is the Bravery ceremony. They did this ceremoly befor a war party was sent out to battle. one of there greqatest cerimoneys is the bear ceremony. this was when the tribe had killed a bear purposly or accedentally, for they had high respect for the bears of there woods. they would lay the bear's hide and head on a mat. then they would lays the bears favorite food around the bear such as berries and maple sugar. They would then,if it was male, lay a beaded man's coutum next to the hide and if it was female a beaded womens coustum. they would carfully cut up the bear and have a giant feast were everyone of the tribe would eat a peice of the bear. they would also hang part of the toung up for four days to show respect to the bear.

H-Ho-chunk houses are made of wood and saplings. O-Otters were one of the main furs sold by the Ho-chunk. C- Curing, the ho-chunk belived the way to cure the sick is was from music.H- Ho-Chunk Indians are known for there use of deerskin.U- Unlike Woodland indians the Ho-chunk are the only ones that speak SouianN- Native plants are used to make the wigwamK- kettle pots were made by the Ho-chunk to hold food