All tagged Hoocąk Culture

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 5k run/walk held in LaCrosse

On May 5th, a couple hundred people gathered in Burns Park across the street from the Ni Tani Hocira (Three Rivers House) Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) Nation La Crosse Branch Office in La Crosse, Wisconsin, for the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) 5k run/walk.

Senior Academic Librarian-Emerita, Hoocąk Janice Rice, speaks at Kickapoo Valley Reserve on culture, philosophy, teachings, values, and land stewardship

“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.