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Having spent years learning sort as an understudy of the late Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist and sculptor Harry Whitehorse, Gene Delcourt is determined to make sure that Whitehorse’s work and life are never forgotten. Delcourt, half Abenaki and half Filipino, is a wood sculptor who developed the idea for an annual event to honor and memorialize Whitehorse’s life and impact on the art community worldwide.
For Toby Lee and Joan Greendeer-Lee, practicing forest management in the Coon Creek Watershed is all about creating thriving woodlands for the next generation. Greendeer-Lee and Lee are looking forward to sharing more about their forestry practices as hosts of the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council’s first field visit of Summer 2024, which they will hold on their Coon Valley tree farm June 5th.
Many have served our country in the military, whether volunteering or having been drafted. When people join the military, all take a sacred oath giving themselves to the service of the country becoming GIs (Government Issue). Not to be cliché, all gave some, but some gave all.
“The way that I learned was from my grandmother and my mother. A lot of what we were told was to be quiet, to sit there, to listen and to work. We listened to what our elders told us and we also obeyed whatever they told us to do,” said Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) Janice Rice.
This year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day was recognized in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, and commemorated a bench, painting and interpretive panel, acknowledging the special relationship between the people of Reedsburg and the Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) Nation.
“I never thought I would actually have an art studio,” Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk)/Ojibeway artist Christopher Sweet said looking around his new place.
The sun is rising and the sky is brazen blue. A dozen volunteers have shown up on this unseasonably cold October morning in southern Wisconsin.
Located just a short meandering drive on the southern outskirts of Baraboo Wisconsin, is a tourist mecca of food, spirits, the renowned Devil’s Lake State Park, and a quaint motel called the WilloWood Inn.
Once hailed as the world’s largest ammunition plant, and having been turned back over to its rightful caretakers, the Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk), the Badger Ammunition plant recently played host to the revealing of a cultural mural.
Once hailed as the world’s largest ammunition plant and having been turned back over to its rightful caretakers, the Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk), the Badger Ammunition plant recently played host to several Hoocąk families for a cooperative art project.
Beginning in July, the Little Eagle Arts Foundation (LEAF), will coordinate the creation of a community-inspired clay tile mosaic mural that will be installed along the Great Sauk State Trail.
