Whirling Thunder Encampment
Whirling Thunder was a Ho-Chunk chief who lived on the Neutral Ground in Iowa during the 1840’s.
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Indigenous People of NE Iowa
Ho-Chunk Living & Burial Site St. Lucas
Since then we have an oral history statement of Gary Mihm that he saw Indian grave sites on the hilltop on the Bill Mihm farm on the edge of St Lucas.
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Ho-Chunk Living Site at Confluence of the Bass Creek with the Turkey River
Ho-Chunk families constructed ciporoke at this site over many decades, even in recent decades. A ciiporoke is similar to the
Algonquin wigwam.
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Archaeology Site Near Eldorado
We are researching what tribes may have been in this archaeology site area during the Woodland Period of approximately 1,000
years ago.
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Ho-Chunk Living Site on Turkey River near Eldorado
The Ho-Chunk lived here as families well into the 1950s. The Ho-Chunk families fished and hunted and worked with local
farmers.
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Create Indigenous People Awareness
Create Indigenous People Awareness “People have inhabited Iowa for thousands of years. The Native Americans who originally settled this region were members of as many as seventeen tribes, though at
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