[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, NATIVE PEOPLES: Ho-Chunk return to Badger Ammo Plant (WI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ho-Chunk return to ancestral land

by Kim Lamoreaux 
Sauk Prairie Eagle (WI)
June 24, 2015

While the Ho-Chunk Nation spent millennia in Wisconsin and created a culture rich in art and spirituality, the tribe’s more recent history has at times been heartbreaking.

The indigenous people were moved at least 11 times out of their homeland after generations of living in the lush, fertile lands along the Wisconsin River.

Part of the Ho-Chunk homeland included what had come to be known as “Day-wa-kun-chunk,” comprised of the “Land of the Spirit Voices,” what is now Devil’s Lake, and adjacent land known to most people alive today as the site of the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wiscnews.com/news/local/article_30f6a188-123a-522b-a0d2-57a4e638486d.html
 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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