Index

Page numbers in bold means that there is a picture on that page.

A

ancestors, 1, 15

animal spirits, 15

B

baby carriers. See cradleboards

Bald Eagle (sister), 20

baskets, 23

beadwork, 4, 54

Bear Clan, 15

bears, 42, 42

Bends the Bough (mother)

on following tradition, 49–50

homestead of, 14

before Mountain Wolf Woman’s birth, 7–8, 14

Mountain Wolf Woman’s childhood and, 17, 18, 21

on Mountain Wolf Woman’s marriage, 63

resettlement of, 7–8

return to Wisconsin of, 9, 11–13

berry picking

blueberries, 26, 30–33, 31

cranberries, 38, 38–39, 39

Big Winnebago (brother), 20, 43, 49–50

Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 11, 14, 14, 27, 31, 32

British settlers, 5

C

canoes. See dugout canoes

ceremonies, 46

See also feasts

cattail. See mats

clans, 13, 15, 15

See also specific clans

clothes, traditional, 23, 49, 61, 62, 63, 64

corn, 33, 33–34, 34

cradleboards, 18, 19, 19

Crashing Thunder (brother), 20

D

dancing, 48, 60, 61

deer, 39–40, 42, 48

Department of Natural Resources, 29

Distant Flashes Standing (sister), 20, 43–44, 58

dolls, 43

dugout canoes, 9–11, 10

E

Eagle Clan, 14, 15

earth clan, 15

Earthmaker, 23, 55

education

at home, 22–23

at school, 51–52, 59, 59–61, 60

European settlers, 3, 5

trade with, 4–5, 10

F

fall activities

cranberry picking, 38, 38–39, 39

hunting, 26, 39–40, 40, 42–43

family roles

aunts, 2, 54

brothers, 51, 60, 62–63

duties and privileges, 2, 48

grandfathers, 54

nephews, 2, 48, 53, 54

nieces, 2, 53

sisters, 51, 60

uncles, 48, 53

fasting, 22, 43, 49–50

Fear the Snake Den (grandfather), 54–56

feasts, 46, 48–50

fishing, 28–29, 29

food, 3, 26, 27, 37, 50

See also specific methods of obtaining

Fox River, 4, 6

French settlers, 3, 4, 12

G

gardening, 3, 4, 26, 30

corn, 33, 33–34, 34

squash, 34–35, 35

gathering, 3

food stored by mice, 36

potatoes, 35–36, 36

slippery elm bark, 57, 57–58

water lilies, 29–30, 30

generosity, as duty, 2, 21, 54, 60, 64

gifts, 21, 54, 60, 64

Good Snake (grandfather), 54–56

Green Bay, Wisconsin, 4, 6

Green Lake, 59, 59

groundnuts. See potatoes

H

High Snake (grandfather), 54

Ho-Chunk

language of, 6

as name, 6

Ho-Chunk Nation

history of in Wisconsin, 1, 4

lands of, 7

resettlement of by government, 5–7, 6, 13, 67

homesteads, 13–14

houses. See log cabin, wigwams

hunger, 50

hunting, 3, 26, 39–40, 40, 42–43, 46

I

Iroquois, 3

J

jewelry, 54, 54, 62, 63

L

La Crosse, Wisconsin, 11, 27

lacrosse (game), 46

land

decisions about, 15

Ho-Chunk territory, 7

as private property, 13, 26

log cabin, 14, 30

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich, 2, 18, 66, 67

Lutheran Mission School, 59–61, 60, 67

M

maple sugar, 16–17, 17, 54

marriage, 62–64, 65

Marshfield, Wisconsin, 53

marsh rabbits. See muskrats

mats, cattail, 3, 40, 41, 41

for wigwams, 9

medicine, traditional, 56, 56–58, 65

medicine lodge, 55–56

Mississippi River, 11, 12, 27, 67

Missouri River, 9, 11, 12, 67

moccasins, 23

month names, 25

Mountain Wolf Woman

birth of, 1

death of, 67

descendants of, 65

early childhood of, 16, 17–18, 21–22

as a grown-up, 65–66, 66

life story collected, 2

marriage of, 62–64, 65

name of, 20–22

religious beliefs of, 59

school years of, 51–52, 59, 59–61, 60

as a teenager, viii, 63

Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder; The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian (Lurie), 2

muskrats, 27–28, 28

N

names

birth order and, 20

ceremonial, 20, 21

for Ho-Chunk Nation, 6

of months, 25

Nebraska, Ho-Chunk people in, 5, 7, 9

Neillsville, Wisconsin, 40

Nicolet, Jean, 3, 3

P

Pine (father-in-law), 64

potatoes, Indian, 35–36, 36

Potawatomi, 53

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 11

prayers and offerings, 44, 48

R

Rattlesnake (grandfather), 58–59

reservations, 5, 7

resettlement by government, 5–7, 6, 13, 67

Revolutionary War, 5

River’s Mouth Place, 11, 12

S

seasonal cycles, 24–27, 52

See also individual seasons

sky clan, 13, 14, 15

slippery elm, as medicine, 57, 57–58

Snake Clan, 54

spear fishing, 29, 29

spirits

of clans, 15

prayers and offerings to, 44, 48

religion and, 23

spring activities, 13

blueberry picking, 30–33

fishing, 28–29, 29

maple sugar making, 16, 26

trapping, 26, 27

water lily gathering, 29–30

squash, 34–35, 35

St. Louis, Missouri, 11, 12

store-bought items, 32–33

Strikes Standing (brother), 20, 49–50, 56

sturgeon, 28–29

sugaring. See maple sugar

summer activities

gardening, 26, 30, 33, 33–35, 34, 35

gathering potatoes, 35–36, 36

T

Thunder Clan, 13, 15

Thundercloud, Frances, 2

tobacco, 44, 44, 48

Tomah Indian Industrial School, 51–52, 52, 67

Tomah, Wisconsin, 51–52

tools, 10

trapping, 4, 27

treaties, 5

V

visions, obtaining, 49–50

W

war bundles, 46, 47, 47

water lilies, 29–30, 30

weaving, 44

White Thunder (sister), 17, 20, 56

wigwams, 8, 8–9, 40, 48, 55

Winnebago

as name, 6

See also

Ho-Chunk winter activities

feasts, 46, 48–50

hunting, 26, 46

Wisconsin

resettlement from, 5–7, 6, 13, 67

return to, 6, 9, 11–13, 67

statehood of, 1

Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 52–53, 53, 59, 59

Wolf Clan, 21

Wolf Woman, 21–22