Indigenous People of NE Iowa

< View all sites Ho-Chunk Village Near St. Clements Church, Spillville Mr. Goddard says, “An Indian chief had a farm about one-half mile southwest of Spillville, and a considerable part of […]

< View all sites Ho-Chunk Sacred Hill on Turkey River Reserve This mesa-like hilltop contains Ho-Chunk graves from the past two centuries. Since the 1840s Ho-Chunk people have made tobacco

< View all sites Ho-Chunk School Site on the Turkey River Reserve The Turkey River School served nearly 250 children and adults in the 1840s on the Turkey river Reserve.

< View all sites Ho-Chunk Burial Site near St. Clement Church, Spillville Oral settler tradition has long noted that adjacent to the St. Clement Cemetery are the unmarked graves of Ho-Chunk

< View all sites Ho-Chunk Burial site at St. Anthony de Padua Chapel, Turkey River Reserve. A large portion of this Ho-chunk burial area may be within the grounds of

< View all sites Ho-Chunk Living Site in the Big Woods, east of St. Lucas Nearby German farm families recall Ho-Chunk living in this massive woodland a century ago.  With

< View all sites Ho-Chunk Turkey River Reserve The Ho-Chunk (Winnebago,) are a Siouan speaking people whose historic territory includes a significant portion of Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota, Iowa

< View all sites Ho-chunk Sugar Encampment along the Little Turkey River Near Auburn This Ho-Chunk encampment was active for many decades into the 1930s.  Local farmers recall the large copper