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All tagged Wisconsin Native American Stories
The timing couldn’t have been better for Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk)/White Earth Ojibwe artist Christopher Sweet, as November is National Native American Heritage month.
The Dream Catcher has its origin with the Ojibwe tribe, although it has been adapted into other tribes.
Sweet and his wife Chrissy, always looking for a better way to promote the Native American arts, came across an opportunity to move the studio to a high traffic area in the Historic Baraboo Square.
As invited guests touring the sprawling reservation lands of the Windigo Lake Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, a circle of anthropology students studying Native American Indian History at UW-Madison were among those who recently found themselves sitting cross-legged in a remote cave heavily decorated with rock art in the style typical of ancient times.
