The Encyclopedia of Hočąk (Winnebago) Mythology

© 2005

by Richard L. Dieterle

e-mail: diete003@umn.edu


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Note: This website is a work in progress, so files are being constantly added, revised, and updated.

Some stories may contain subject matter not suitable for children.


"New" refers to items added after August 15, 2009.

"R" denotes items substantially revised after August 15, 2009.


The numbers in parentheses after a title are dates in which the entry was introduced to the encyclopedia (not the date of the last revision)


| Guides | Essays | Language Studies | Narrative Structure | Archaeology | Subject Entries | Stories (Waiką & Worak) | Place Name Stories | Personal Histories | Spuria | Mention of the Hočągara in the Mythology of Other Nations | Big Knife Fiction of Hočąk Inspiration | Miscellaneous Material | Genealogies | Pictures | Resources and External Links |


Acknowledgement


Guides

The Format

Contributors (9/15/04)

Core Myths

Catalogue of Story Types

Catalogue of Themes (1/26/02)

Songs (5/19/08)

Glossary

Glossary of Indian Nations (8/21//2001)

Glossary of Non-Indian Nations (3/29/05)

Hočąk Bibliography (6/13/2001)

Radin's Winnebago Notebooks at the American Philosophical Society (1/7/05) Finally completed, 10/30/09.

Susman's Winnebago Notebooks at the American Philosophical Society (2/2/05)

Hočąk Syllabary, Transliteration, and Pronunciation


Maps

Carte du Pays des Sauvages Renards, 1730 (Lake Winnebago and Vicinity)

Devil's Lake

De Soto, McGregor, Paint Rock, La Crosse, Prairie du Chien

Green Lake & Lake Puckaway

Lake Mendota & Lost Lake

Lake Wingra

Lake Winnebago & Green Lake

Manawa in Relation to Green Bay

Miwok Tribe, Distribution in California

Necedah

Old Manawa

Wazija (Wisconsin)

Winneconnee

Wisconsin Dells


Essays

Trickster's Pregnancy and the Seasons of Corn (11/6/05)


Language Studies

Word and Phrase Lists

Hočąk Lexicon (in process) 54,720 Entries (last revised: 11/6/09) Links to most sources now included.

Foster's Word List -

English-Hočąk

Hočąk-English

Gatschet & StCyr, "Hotchank hit'é: The Winnebago Language"

Hočąk Vocabulary (unknown compiler), ISIL 1880 Format (1/17/00)

Comparative Frequency of Select Words in Certain Stories (8/28/09)

Letter Frequency Inventory (7/16/00)

Hočąk Texts

The Abduction and Rescue of Trickster | The Animal that would Eat Men | The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men, v. 1 | The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men, v. 2 | Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men | Bear Clan Origin Myth, v. 7 | Bear Offers Himself as Food, v. 2 | Beliefs Concerning Ghosts | Big Eater | Bird Clan Origin Myth | The Birth of the Twins, v. 1 | The Birth of the Twins, v. 2 | The Birth of the Twins, v. 3 | Bladder and His Brothers, v. 1 | Bladder and His Brothers, v. 2 | Bladder and His Brothers, v. 5 | Bladder and His Brothers, v. 6 | Bluehorn Rescues His Sister | The Boy Who Flew | The Boy who would be Immortal - 1 | The Boy who would be Immortal - 2 | Brave Man Gambles | The Brown Squirrel, 1-43 | The Brown Squirrel, 43-85 | The Canine Warrior | The Captive Boys | The Completion Song Origin | Coughing Up Black Hawks | Creation of the World, v. 11 | Deer Clan Origin Myth, v. 1 | Descent of the Drum, Version 1 | Descent of the Drum, v. 2 | The Dipper, 1-138 | The Dipper, 138-190 | The Dipper, 190-267 | Disease Giver Blesses Jobenągiwįxga | Earthmaker Blesses Wešgíšega, v. 2 | Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins, v. 1 | Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins, v. 2 | East Shakes the Messenger | The Elk's Skull | Farewell Songs |The Fatal House | The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee, v. 1 | The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee, v. 2 | The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee, v. 3 | Fighting Retreat | Fireman's Brother | First Contact | The Fleetfooted Man | The Four Services Songs | The Four Steps of the Cougar | The Fox-Hočąk War | Ghost Dance Origin Myth I | A Giant Visits His Daughter | The Gift of Shooting | Grandmother's Gifts | Hare Burns His Buttocks | Hare Establishes Bear Hunting | Hare Gets Swallowed | Hare Kills a Man with a Cane | Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans, v. 2 | Hare Steals the Fish | Hawk Clan Origin Myth | Heroka Songs | Historical Origins of the Medicine Rite | Hog's Adventures | How Little Priest went out as a Soldier | The Ice Hole | Iron Staff and His Companions | The Island Weight Songs | Įčorúšika and His Brothers | Journey to Spiritland, v. 1a | Journey to Spiritland, v. 1b | Journey to Spiritland, v. 4 | Journey to Spiritland, v. 5 | Journey to Spiritland, v. 6 | Journey to Spiritland, v. 8 | Kaǧiga | The Lame Friend | Little Fox is Invited to a Feast | Little Fox Goes on the Warpath | Little Human Head | Little Thunder | The Lost Blanket, v. 1, pp. 123-221 | The Lost Blanket, v. 1, pp. 222-247 | The Lost Blanket, v. 2 | A Man's Revenge | The Man with Two Heads | The Man who went to the Upper & Lower Worlds | The Man Whose Wife was Captured | The Markings on the Moon, v. 2 (with notes by Gatschet) | Mąznį'ąpra, pp. 1-44, pp. 45-89, pp. 90-134 | Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, v. 2 | Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, v. 4 | The Messengers of Hare, v. 1 | The Messengers of Hare, v. 2a (First Telling) | The Messengers of Hare, v. 2b (Second Telling) | Migistéga | Mink Soils the Princess | A Mink Tricks Trickster | The Mission of the Five Sons of Earthmaker, v. 2 | Morning Star and His Friend | The Mouse Song | The Necessity for Death, v. 2 | The Necessity for Death, v. 3 |The Nightspirits Bless Čiwoit'éhiga | The Nightspirits Bless Jobenągiwįxga | The Old Man and the Giants | The Omahas who turned into Snakes | Origin of the Decorah Family | The Osage Massacre | Paint Medicine Origin Myth | The Pointing Man, v. 1 | The Pointing Man, v. 2 | Potato Magic | A Prophecy | Resurrection of the Chief's Daughter | Rich Man, Boy, and Horse | The Scenting Contest | The Seer | Shakes the Earth | The Shell Anklets Origin Myth, v. 2 | A Sioux Story | Snake Song Origin Myth | Snowshoe Strings | Soldier Dance Songs | The Song to the Elephant | South Seizes the Messenger | The Stone that Turned into a Frog | The Story of the Thunder NamesŠųgepaga | The Sweetened Drink Song | Testing the Slave, Version 1 | Testing the Slave, v. 2 | Thunderbird and White Horse | Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth, v. 4 | Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth, v. 8 | Thunder Cloud is Blessed | Thunder Cloud Marries Again | Tobacco Origin Myth, v. 3 | Tobacco Origin Myth, v. 4 | Tobacco Origin Myth, v. 5 | Traveler and the Thunderbird War, v. 1 | Trickster and the Children | Trickster and the Dancers, v. 2 | Trickster Eats the Laxative Bulb, v. 2 | Trickster Gets Pregnant | Trickster Loses Most of His Penis | Trickster Takes Little Fox for a Ride | Trickster Visits His Family | Trickster's Adventures in the Ocean | Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks, v. 1 | Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks, v. 2 | Trickster's Buffalo Hunt | Trickster's Tail | Trickster's Warpath | Turtle and the Giant | Turtle and the Merchant | Turtle's Warparty, v. 2 | Turtle's Warparty, v. 3 | The Twins Disobey Their Father, v. 1 | The Twins Disobey Their Father, v. 2 | The Twins Disobey Their Father, v. 3 | The Twins Get into Hot Water, v. 1 | The Twins Get into Hot Water, v. 2 | The Twins Get into Hot Water, v. 3 | The Twins Join Redhorn's Warparty | The Twins Kill a Waterspirit (Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins, v. 3) | The Twins Retrieve Redstar's Head, pp. 1-59, pp. 60-123 | The Twins Visit Their Father's Village, v. 1 | The Twins Visit Their Father's Village, v. 2 | The Twins Visit Their Father's Village, v. 3 | The Two Brothers | Wanihéga Becomes a Sak'į | Waterspirit Bluehorn (Brave Man) | The Were-fish, v. 2 | The Were-Grizzly | A Wife for Knowledge | Wolves and Humans | The Woman who Became a Walnut Tree | Worúxega | Young Man Gambles Often, pp. 1-44, pp. 45-86, pp. 87-130, pp. 131-173 |


Narrative Structure

| Coughing Up Black Hawks | Four Steps of the Cougar |


Archaeology

Gottschall: A New Interpretation (2/3/05)

Gottschall: Debate and Discussion (6/17/05)

The Gottschall Head (6/26/05)


Subject Entries (Personages, Lands, Sacred Objects, Concepts)

Ants

Aurora Borealis

Bear

Bear Spirits

Bears (4/22/2001)

Beavers (5/28/2001)

Bird Spirits

Black Bear

Black Hawk

Black Hawks (10/22/2001)

Bladder

Blue (or Gray) Bear (4/13/1998)

Blue Jay (3/23/1998)

Bluehorn (Evening Star) (5/19/1999)

Buffalo Spirits

Butterflies (12/16/1998)

Calendar — see Moon

The Cardinal Points (4/14/1998)

Celestial Spirits (9/2001)

Chipmunks (11/2001)

Cosmography (3/18/1998)

Cougars (Mountain Lions, Pumas, Panthers) (11/13/04)

Coyote (4/15/1998)

Crane (4/16/1998)

The Creation Council

Crows, see Kaǧi

Day (3/29/1998)

Deer Spirits (3/28/1998)

Devil's Lake (3/15/1998)

Disease Giver

Ducks (7/15/1999)

Eagle (6/15/1998)

Earth (Grandmother) (7/18/1998)

Earthmaker (Mą'ųna)

Elk (6/13/1998)

Fire (3/30/1998)

Fish Spirits

Fishers (6/4/05)

Flint (4/8/06)

The Forked Man (5/1/1998)

Genealogy

Foxes (3/29/1999)

Frogs (3/26/1999)

Ghosts

Hočąk Text — Beliefs Concerning Ghosts

Giants

Gourd Rattles (10/4/04)

Grandmother — see Earth

Grasshoppers (9/26/1999)

Great Black Hawk

Great Spirit — see Earthmaker (Mą'ųna)

Hare (Wašjįgéga, Rabbit) (3/15/1998)

See also The Hare Cycle

Herešgúnina

Heroka

Hočąk-English Interlinear Text — Heroka Songs (11/4/04)

[He Who has] Human Heads as Earlobes — see Redhorn

Horses (9/12/1999)

Hummingbirds (3/3/00)

Iron Spirits (3/27/1998)

Island Weights (7/15/1998)

Kaǧi (Crows, Ravens)

Kečągéga — see Turtle

Lake Winnebago (5/11//2002)

Leeches (1/28/2002)

Lice (10/12/2001)

Lightning (1/5/00)

Little Children Spirits (8/2/1998)

Little Fox (2/10/03)

Loons (5/6/1998)

Maize

Martens

Mą'ųna — see Earthmaker

The Meteor Spirit

Mice

Hočąk-English Interlinear Text — The Mouse Song (11/3/04)

Minks

Moon (5/11/1999)

Helmbrecht and Lehmann's List of Hočąk Moons (8/24/08)

Jipson's List of Hočąk Moons (6/14/05)

Osage Moons (4/16/06)

Sioux Moons (5/10/09)

Susman's List of Hočąk Moons (7/9/05)

Morning Star (3/25/1998)

Mountain Lions — see Cougars

Nightspirits

The North Wind (4/21/1998)

One Legged One

Otters (3/17/1998)

Owls (3/17/1998)

Partridge (8/14/1998)

Pigeon (3/17/1998)

Pigeon Hawk (3/21/1998)

Polaris (8/4//2001)

Pretty Woman (9/2/1999)

Rabbit (Wašjįgéga) — see Hare

Raccoons

Ravens, see Kaǧi

Red Bear (5/15/1998)

Red Star — see Bluehorn

Redhorn

See also The Redhorn Cycle

Redman (7/25/1998)

Rock Spirits (10/10/1999)

Rušewe (4/21/1998)

Skunks (5/26/00)

Sleets as He Walks (3/2002)

Snakes

Snowbirds

The Sons of Earthmaker

The Sons of Redhorn

See also The Redhorn Cycle

South Wind (4/21/1998)

Spirit Woman (Hinųkxop'ini) (10/17/1998) (new material added, 10/11/09)

Spirits (Waxop'ini) (6/17/2001)

Squirrels (6/9/00)

Storms as He Walks (7/15/1998)

Sun

Supernatural and Spiritual Power

Swans (7/15/2003)

The Thunderbird Warclub

Thunderbirds

Tobacco

Traveler (7/14/1998)

Tree Spirits

Trickster (Wakjąkága) (7/15/1998)

See also The Trickster Cycle

Turkeys (4/2001)

Turtle (Kečąkega)

Turtle Spirits

The Twins (3/23/2002)

Wašjįgéga — see Hare

Wakjąkaga — see Trickster

The Wąkpanįgera (10/9/1999) (material on Wąkpanįka added, 9/20/09)

Wanąǧi — see Ghosts

Wanąǧi Mónąč (5/22/00)

The Waterspirit of Green Lake (2/7/1999)

Waterspirits (7/15/1998)

The Wazija (3/9/1998)

Weasels (1/28/07)

Wears Sparrows for a Coat

Were-grizzles and Other Man-bears

White Bear (5/15/1998)

Wildcats (Bobcats) (6/1/00)

Witches (2/13/1999)

Wolf & Dog Spirits

Wonáǧire Wąkšik (5/15/1998)

Wood Spirits (10/7/1999)

Yųgiwi


Stories

Adventures of Redhorn's Sons (5/22/01)

Ancient Blessing (12/15/05)

The Animal Spirit Aids of the Medicine Rite (10/8/04)

Hočąk Text —The Animal Spirit Aids of the Medicine Rite (10/8/04)

The Animal who would Eat Men (4/27/1998)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Animal that would Eat Men (3/18/03)

The Annihilation of the Hočągara I

Annihilation of the Hočągara II

Aračgéga's Blessings

The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men (11/28/04)

Hočąk Text — The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men, V. 1 (11/28/04)

Hočąk Text — The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men, V. 2 (8/18/05)

Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth

The Baldness of the Buzzard

Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men (4/4/06)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men (4/4/06)

The Bear Clan Origin Myth (8/10/02)

Hočąk Text — Bear Clan Origin Myth, Version 7 (7/10/02)

Bear Offers Himself as Food

Hočąk Text — Bear Offers Himself as Food, Version 2 (3/18/03)

Berdache Origin Myth

The Big Eater

Hočąk Text — Big Eater (2/10/05)

Big Eagle Cave Mystery (5/2001)

The Big Stone (a commentary has been added, 8/13/09)

Big Thunder Teaches Čap'ósgaga the Warpath

Bird Clan Origin Myth

Hočąk Text — Bird Clan Origin Myth

Quapah Convergences with the Proto-Winnebago-Chiwere Clan System (Table)

Bird Origin Myth

Black and White Moons

Bladder and His Brothers

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Bladder and His Brothers, Version 1

Hočąk Text — Bladder and His Brothers, Version 2

Hočąk Text — Bladder and His Brothers, Version 5

Hočąk Text — Bladder and His Brothers, Version 6 (3/15/04)

The Blessing of a Bear Clansman

The Blessings of the Buffalo Spirits

The Blessing of Šokeboka (6/26/05)

The Blessing of Kerexųsaka (8/18/03)

Bluehorn's Nephews

Bluehorn Rescues His Sister (3/20/05)

Hočąk Text — Bluehorn Rescues His Sister (3/20/05)

The Boulders of Devil's Lake (12/7/1998)

The Boy Captured by the Bad Thunderbirds

The Boy who became a Robin

The Boy who Flew

Hočąk Text — The Boy Who Flew

The Boy who was Blessed by a Mountain Lion

The Boy who would be Immortal (3/15/1998)

Hočąk Text — The Boy who would be Immortal - 1 (7/6/02)

Hočąk Text — The Boy who would be Immortal - 2 (4/1/02)

Brave Man (11/13/02)

Hočąk Text — Waterspirit Bluehorn (11/13/02)

Brave Man Gambles (10/26/00)

Hočąk Text — Brave Man Gambles (10/26/00)

The Brown Squirrel

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Brown Squirrel, 1-43 (1/5/09) (extensive minor revisions made, 8/26/09)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Brown Squirrel, 43-85 (2/13/09) (extensive minor revisions made, 8/26/09)

Buffalo Clan Origin Myth

Buffalo Dance Origin Myth (4/18/1999)

The Canine Warrior (3/28/05)

Hočąk Text — The Canine Warrior (3/28/05)

The Captive Boys (3/16/1998)

Hočąk Text — The Captive Boys (2/29/04)

The Chief of the Heroka (new commentary entry, 8/15/09)

The Children of the Sun

The Choke Cherry Wild Cat

The Claw Shooter (3/4/04)

The Commandments of Earthmaker (8/30/04)

Completion Song Origin

Hočąk Text — The Completion Song Origin (3/8/06)

The Cosmic Ages of the Hočągara

Coughing Up Black Hawks (9/26/04)

Hočąk Text — Coughing Up Black Hawks (9/26/04)

Narrative Structure — Coughing Up Black Hawks (3/24/05)

Coyote and the Ghost, see Little Fox and the Ghost

Coyote Goes on the Warpath, see Little Fox Goes on the Warpath

Crane and His Brothers (3/16/1998)

The Creation of Evil (12/28/08)

The Creation of Man

The Creation of the World

Hočąk Text — Creation of the World, Version 11 (9/15/02)

The Daughter-in-Law's Jealousy

Death Enters the World (10/04/04)

Deer Clan Origin Myth

Hočąk Text — Deer Clan Origin Myth, Version 1

The Descent of the Drum (8/30/04)

Hočąk Text — Descent of the Drum, Version 1 (11/18/04)

Hočąk Text — Descent of the Drum, Version 2 (11/23/04)

Devil's Lake — How It Got Its Name (7/31/00)

The Dipper (new commentary being written)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Dipper, 1-138 (7/29/08)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Dipper, 138-190 (8/15/08)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Dipper, 190-267 (9/7/08)

Disease Giver Blesses Jobenągiwįxga (1/31/01)

Hočąk Text — Disease Giver Blesses Jobenągiwįxga

The Diving Contest

The Dog that became a Panther

The Dogs of the Chief's Son

Earthmaker Blesses Wagíšega (Wešgíšega) (3/29/1998)

Hočąk Text — Earthmaker Blesses Wešgíšega, v. 2 (3/30/02)

East Enters the Medicine Lodge (5/17/04)

East Shakes the Messenger (10/28/04)

Hočąk Text — East Shakes the Messenger (10/28/04)

The Elk Clan Origin Myth

The Fall of the Stars (8/27/1999)

The Fatal House (9/2/1999)

Hočąk Text — The Fatal House (9/2/1999)

Fighting Retreat (4/4/05)

Hočąk Text — Fighting Retreat (4/4/05)

First Contact (2/23/09)

Hočąk Text — First Contact (2/23/09)

The First Fox and Sauk War

The First Snakes (3/11/01)

Fish Clan Origins

The Fleetfooted Man

Hočąk Text — The Fleetfooted Man (8/6/00)

The Foolish Hunter (7/14/1998)

The Four Slumbers Origin Myth

The Four Steps of the Cougar (11/9/04)

Hočąk Text — The Four Steps of the Cougar (11/9/04)

Four Steps of the Cougar, Narrative Structure (12/27/04)

Fourth Universe

The Fox-Hočąk War (6/22/02) (new comparative material added, 8/15/09)

Hočąk Text — The Fox-Hočąk War (6/29/02)

The Marin Letter (11/21/02)

The Ghost Dance Origin Myth I

Hočąk Text — Ghost Dance Origin Myth I (4/21/01)

The Ghost Dance Origin Myth II

A Giant Visits His Daughter

Hočąk Text — A Giant Visits His Daughter (3/24/00)

The Gift of Shooting (12/7/04)

Hočąk Text — The Gift of Shooting (12/6/04)

The Girl who Refused a Blessing from the Wood Spirits

The Glory of the Morning (3/9/09)

Grandfather's Two Families

Grandmother's Gifts (10/25/04)

Hočąk Text — Grandmother's Gifts (10/25/04)

The Gray Wolf Origin Myth (8/11/2001)

The Great Fish (12/25/1998)

The Great Lodge (2/17/05)

Great Walker and the Anishinaabe Witches

Great Walker's Medicine

Great Walker's Warpath

The Greedy Woman (7/14/1998)

The Green Man

The Green Waterspirit of the Wisconsin Dells (3/18/1998)

The Hare Cycle

§1. Hare Acquires His Arrows

§2. Hare and the Grasshoppers (6/13/1998)

§3. Hare Kills Flint

§4. Hare Kills Sharp Elbow

§5. Hare Visits His Grandfather Bear

§6. Grandmother Packs the Bear Meat

§7. Hare Visits the Bodiless Heads (3/9/1998) (extensively revised and interpreted, 10/13/09)

§8. Hare Kills a Man with a Cane

Hočąk Text — Hare Kills a Man with a Cane (3/11/03)

§9. Hare Burns His Buttocks

Hočąk Text — Hare Burns His Buttocks [incomplete] (3/11/03)

Hočąk Text — The Song of Sun Caught in a Net (11/5/04)

§10. Hare Gets Swallowed (6/23/02)

Hočąk Text — Hare Gets Swallowed, Version 2 (11/27/02)

Hočąk Text — The Song to the Elephant (11/4/04)

§11. Hare Kills Wildcat

§12. Hare and the Dangerous Frog (3/9/1998)

§13. Hare Retrieves a Stolen Scalp

§14. Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans (3/9/1998) (an Ottawa parallel story has been added with commentary, 9/18/09)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans, v. 2 (4/3/03)

§15. The Necessity for Death (3/9/1998)

Hočąk Text — The Necessity for Death, Version 2 (4/21/00)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Necessity for Death, Version 3 (4/30/03)

Hare Establishes Bear Hunting

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Hare Establishes Bear Hunting (4/17/03)

Hare Secures the Creation Lodge of the Medicine Rite (4/23/04)

Hare Steals the Fish (11/27/02)

Hočąk Text — Hare Steals the Fish (11/27/02)

Hawk Clan Origin Myth (11/4/09) (two versions discovered to be one)

Hočąk Text — Hawk Clan Origin Myth (11/4/09) (missing portions of the text recovered)

He Who Eats the Stinking Part of the Deer Ankle

Historical Origins of the Medicine Rite (7/22/05)

Hočąk Text — Historical Origins of the Medicine Rite (7/22/05)

The Hočągara Contest the Giants (5/12/1999)

The Hočągara Migrate South (2/7/1999)

The Hočąk Arrival Myth (5/15/1998)

Hočąk Clans Origin Myth (3/13/1998)

The Hočąk Migration Myth (7/15/1998)

Hog's Adventures (3/8/2001)

Hočąk Text — Hog's Adventures (3/8/2001)

Holy One and His Brother (an ancient Egyptian parallel added, 11/1/09)

Holy Song (4/11/05)

The Horse Spirit of Eagle Heights

How the Hills and Valleys were Formed (3/8/1998)

How the Thunders Met the Nights (Mąznį'ąpra) (3/4/1998)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Mąznį'ąpra, pp. 1-44 (10/7/02)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Mąznį'ąpra, pp. 45-89 (10/10/02)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Mąznį'ąpra, pp. 90-134 (10/10/02)

The Human Head — see Little Human Head

Įčorúšika and His Brothers (6/13/1998)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Įčorúšika (3/6/06)

Ioway & Missouria Origins (12/30/1998)

Iron Staff and His Companions (1/1/00)

Hočąk Text — Iron Staff and His Companions (1/1/00)

The Island Weight Songs (8/18/03)

Hočąk Text — The Island Weight Songs (1/3/09)

The Journey to Spiritland

Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 1a (4/10/08)

Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 1b (4/21/08)

Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 4 (3/22/08)

Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 5 (4/6/08)

Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 6 (3/31/08)

 Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 8 (incomplete, confined to one episode) (10/11/09)

Kaǧiga and Lone Man (1/12/00)

Hočąk Text — Kaǧiga (1/12/00)

Keramaniš'aka's Blessing (8/4/03)

The King Bird (3/9/1999)

The Lame Friend

Hočąk Text — The Lame Friend (2/12/03)

Lifting Up the Bear Heads (10/18/04)

Hočąk Text — Lifting Up the Bear Heads (10/18/04)

Little Fox and the Ghost (4/21/00)

Hočąk Text — Little Fox is Invited to a Feast (4/21/00)

Little Fox Goes on the Warpath (3/15/1998)

Hočąk Text — Little Fox Goes on the Warpath (2/20/03)

Little Human Head (3/21/1998) (new translation and expanded commentary; two Pawnee parallels added, 10/23/09)

 Hočąk Syllabic Text — Little Human Head (9/15/09)

The Lost Blanket (12/29/01)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Lost Blanket, Part I (1/31/08)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Lost Blanket, Part II (1/15/08)

The Lost Child (5/12/1999)

Maize Comes to the Hočągara

Maize Origin Myth (5/6/1998)

A Man and His Three Dogs (2/27/00)

The Man who Defied Disease Giver (9/4/1998)

The Man who Fell from the Sky (12/1/04)

The Man who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds (8/23/1999)

Hočąk Text — The Man who went to the Upper & Lower Worlds (8/23/1999)

The Man Whose Wife was Captured (4/9/05)

Hočąk Text — The Man Whose Wife was Captured (4/9/05)

The Man with Two Heads (9/4/1999)

Hočąk Text — The Man with Two Heads (9/4/1999)

A Man's Revenge (10/7/00)

Hočąk Text — A Man's Revenge (10/7/00)

The Markings on the Moon (11/17/1999) (an Ottawa parallel added, 9/17/09; Dakota parallel added, 10/23/09)

Hočąk Text — The Markings on the Moon, Version 2 (11/17/1999) (with notes by Gatschet)

The Masaxe War (5/19/00)

The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, v. 2 (3/17/03)

Hočąk Text —Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, v. 4 (5/12/05)

Menominee Origins (= Bear Clan Origin Myth, v. 2b) (2/17/05)

The Messengers of Hare (7/15/03)

Hočąk Text — The Messengers of Hare, Version 1 (1/14/09)

Hočąk Text —The Messengers of Hare, Version 2a (First Telling) (1/17/05)

Hočąk Text —The Messengers of Hare, Version 2b (Second Telling) (1/4/05)

Migistéga (4/21/00)

Hočąk Text — Migistéga (4/21/00)

Migistéga's Death (6/17/05)

The Mission of the Five Sons of Earthmaker

Hočąk Text — The Mission of the Five Sons of Earthmaker, V. 2 (4/21/00)

The Moiety Origin Myth

Morning Star and His Friend  (commentary expanded and revised, 10/22/09)

Hočąk Text — Morning Star and His Friend

The Mulberry Picker

The Nightspirits Bless Čiwoit'éhiga (2/7/01)

Hočąk Text — The Nightspirits Bless Čiwoit'éhiga (2/7/01)

The Nightspirits Bless Jobenągiwįxga (1/27/01)

Hočąk Text — The Nightspirits Bless Jobenągiwįxga (1/21/01)

North Shakes His Gourd (10/04/04)

Ocean Duck

The Old Man and His Four Dogs (8/12/01)

The Old Man and the Giants (5/8/00)

Hočąk Text — The Old Man and the Giants (5/8/00)

Old Man and White Feathers

Old Woman and the Maple Tree Spirit (2/6/04)

The Omahas who turned into Snakes (5/14/00)

Hočąk Text — the Omahas who turned into Snakes (5/14/00)

Origin of the Decorah Family (3/12/09)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Origin of the Decorah Family (3/12/09)

The Origin of the Hočąk Chief (4/28/1998)

The Origin of the Milky Way (9/22/05)

The Orphan who was Blessed with a Horse

The Osage Massacre (5/19/00)

Hočąk Text — The Osage Massacre (9/8/04)

Oto Origins (12/30/1998)

Otter Comes to the Medicine Rite (9/16/04)

Owl Goes Hunting (5/5/01)

Paint Medicine Origin Myth (2/18/05)

Hočąk Text — Paint Medicine Origin Myth (2/18/05)

Partridge's Older Brother (5/10/1998)

Peace of Mind Regained (3/5/04)

The Petition to Earthmaker (8/26/03)

Pigeon Clan Origins (3/8/1999)

The Plant Blessing of Earth (2/4/04)

Porcupine and His Brothers (4/14/1998)

A Prophecy (5/19/01)

Hočąk Text — A Prophecy (5/19/01)

The Quail Hunter

Quapah Origins (12/30/1998)

Raccoon and the Blind Men (5/26/1998)

The Raccoon Coat

A Raccoon Tricks Four Blind Men (12/28/1999)

The Red Feather

The Red Man

The Redhorn Cycle

§1. The Race for the Chief's Daughter

§2. Kunu's Warpath

§3. Redhorn and His Brothers Marry

§4. Redhorn Contests the Giants

§5. The Sons of Redhorn Find Their Father

§6. The Adventures of Redhorn's Sons

§7. The Seduction of Redhorn's Son

Redhorn's Father

Redhorn's Sons

The Reincarnated Grizzly Bear

The Resurrection of the Chief's Daughter (1/1/03) (Ottawa parallel added, 9/17/09)

Hočąk Text — Resurrection of the Chief's Daughter (1/25/03)

Rich Man, Boy, and Horse (4/29/01)

Hočąk Text — Rich Man, Boy, and Horse (6/2/01)

River Child and the Waterspirit of Devil's Lake

The Roaster (4/28/1998)

The Seer (3/15/1998)

Hočąk Text — The Seer (7/9/02)

The Serpents of Trempealeau (5/17/09)

The Seven Maidens

The Shaggy Man

Shakes the Earth (4/15/1998)

Hočąk Text — Shakes the Earth (4/21/00)

The Shawnee Prophet and His Ascension

The Shawnee Prophet — What He Told the Hočągara (3/15/1999)

The Shell Anklets Origin Myth (7/30/03)

Hočąk Text — The Shell Anklets Origin Myth, Version 2

The Sioux Warparty and the Waterspirit of Green Lake

Skunk Origin Myth (3/14/1998)

The Sky Man (3/15/1998)

Snake Clan Origins (fragmentary) (2/17/05)

A Snake Song Origin Myth (9/25/03)

Hočąk Text — Snake Song Origin Myth (10/29/04)

Snowshoe Strings

Hočąk Text — Snowshoe Strings

Soft Shelled Turtle Gets Married (5/2001)

South Enters the Medicine Lodge (6/23/04)

South Seizes the Messenger (10/10/04)

Hočąk Text — South Seizes the Messenger (10/10/04)

Spear Shaft and Lacrosse

The Spider's Eyes (5/12/2001)

The Spirit of Gambling (3/15/1998)

The Spirit of Maple Bluff (12/18/1998)

The Stone Heart

The Stone that Became a Frog (2/23/00)

Hočąk Text — The Stone that Turned into a Frog (2/23/00)

The Story of the Thunder Names (12/27/07)

Hočąk Text — The Story of the Thunder Names (12/27/07)

Šųgepaga (3/19/1998)  (newly translated with a commentary added, 8/21/09)

Hočąk Text — Šųgepaga (8/21/09)

Sun and the Big Eater

The Sweetened Drink Song

Hočąk Text — The Sweetened Drink Song (2/14/09)

The Tap on the Head Medicine (3/3/04)

Tecumseh's Bulletproof Skin (6/6/09)

Testing the Slave (8/24/04)

Hočąk Text —Testing the Slave, Version 1 (11/20/05)

Hočąk Text —Testing the Slave, Version 2 (12/1/04)

The Thunder Charm (12/16/1998)

Thunder Cloud is Blessed (3/15/1998)

Hočąk Text — Thunder Cloud is Blessed (9/1/03)

Thunder Cloud Marries Again

Hočąk Text — Thunder Cloud Marries Again

The Thunderbird

Thunderbird and White Horse

Hočąk Text — Thunderbird and White Horse

Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth (3/31/02)

Hočąk Text — Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth, Version 4 (4/6/02)

Hočąk Text — Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth, Version 8 (6/29/09)

Tobacco Origin Myth

Hočąk Text — Tobacco Origin Myth, Version 1 (3/30/09)

Hočąk Text — Tobacco Origin Myth, Version 3 (3/9/08)

Hočąk Text — Tobacco Origin Myth, Version 4 (3/10/08)

Hočąk Text — Tobacco Origin Myth, Version 5 (3/8/08)

Traveler and the Thunderbird War (7/14/1998)

Hočąk Text — Traveler and the Thunderbird War (v. 1) (9/18/01)

Trickster and the Dancers (9/7/1999)

Hočąk Text — Trickster and the Dancers, Version 2 (6/16/09)

Trickster and the Eagle (5/12/01)

Trickster and the Geese (9/10/1999)

Trickster and the Honey (5/12/01)

The Trickster Cycle (6/20/1999)

§1. Trickster's Warpath (6/18/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster's Warpath (4/23/03)

§2. Trickster's Buffalo Hunt (6/20/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster's Buffalo Hunt (9/19/03)

§3. Trickster and the Children (6/20/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster and the Children (3/23/03)

§4. Trickster's Adventures in the Ocean (6/27/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster's Adventures in the Ocean

§5. The Pointing Man (6/26/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Pointing Man, v. 1 (3/22/03)

Hočąk Text — The Pointing Man, v. 2

§6. Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks (6/27/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks, v. 1 (7/31/04)

Hočąk Text — Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks, v. 2 (6/25/09)

§7. Trickster's Penis (7/4/1999)

§8. The Abduction and Rescue of Trickster (5/22/01)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Abduction and Rescue of Trickster (8/29/04)

§9. Trickster Gets Pregnant (7/4/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster Gets Pregnant (10/29/02)

Article: Trickster's Pregnancy and the Seasons of Corn (11/6/05)

§10. Trickster Visits His Family (7/4/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster Visits His Family (5/27/03)

§11. Trickster Eats the Laxative Bulb (7/4/1999)

Hočąk Text — Trickster Eats the Laxative Bulb, Version 2 (6/27/09)

§12. Trickster and the Mothers (7/12/1999)

§13. Trickster Loses His Meal (7/12/1999)

§14. The Elk's Skull (7/12/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Elk's Skull (8/15/04)

§15. Trickster's Tail (7/18/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster's Tail (8/25/04)

§16. A Mink Tricks Trickster

Hočąk Syllabic Text — A Mink Tricks Trickster (5/17/03)

§17. Trickster Loses Most of His Penis (4/6/03)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster Loses Most of His Penis (4/26/03)

§18. The Scenting Contest

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Scenting Contest (4/21/03)

§19. The Bungling Host

§20. Mink Soils the Princess

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Mink Soils the Princess

§21. Trickster Takes Little Fox for a Ride (8/8/1999)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster Takes Little Fox for a Ride (1/28/03)

§22. Trickster Concludes His Mission (8/8/1999)

Trickster Soils the Princess (7/28/1999)

Trickster, Wolf, Lark, and Turtle

Turtle and the Giant (5/2/00)

Hočąk Text — Turtle and the Giant (5/2/00)

Turtle and the Merchant (8/11/02)

Hočąk Text — Turtle and the Merchant (8/11/02)

Turtle and the Witches (6/6/1998)

Turtle's Warparty (11/3/01)

Hočąk Text — Turtle's Warparty, V. 2 (9/23/04)

Hočąk Text — Turtle's Warparty, V. 3 (4/17/05)

The Twins Cycle of Sam Blowsnake (Version 1) (4/28/1998)

§1. The Birth of the Twins

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Birth of the Twins (9/5/05)

§2. The Twins Disobey Their Father (11/22/01)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Twins Disobey Their Father (9/25/05)

§3. The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (1/22/06)

§4. The Twins Get into Hot Water (8/8/1998)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Twins Get into Hot Water (8/31/06)

§5. The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (8/8/1998)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (9/23/06)

§6. The Twins Join Redhorn's Warparty (8/16/1998)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Twins Join Redhorn's Warparty (11/4/06)

§7. Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins

Hočąk Syllabic Text — Earthmaker Sends Rušewe (10/30/05)

The Twins Cycle of Jasper Blowsnake (Version 2)

§1. The Birth of the Twins

Hočąk Text — The Birth of the Twins (2/24/04)

§2. The Twins Disobey Their Father (6/28/04)

Hočąk Text — The Twins Disobey Their Father (6/28/04)

§3. The Twins Get into Hot Water (7/4/04)

Hočąk Text — The Twins Get into Hot Water (7/4/04) (unbeknownst to me, this file had been lost for a number of years, but was recovered from an archive copy. It has now also been upgraded, 9/25/09)

§4. The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (7/7/04)

Hočąk Text — The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (7/7/04)

§5. The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (7/8/04)

Hočąk Text — The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (7/8/04)

§6. The Lost Blanket (7/14/04)

Hočąk Text — The Lost Blanket (7/14/04)

§7. Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins (7/16/04)

Hočąk Text — Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins (7/16/04)

The Twins Cycle (Version 3 of Amelia Susman)

§1. The Birth of the Twins (8/11/05)

Hočąk Text — The Birth of the Twins (8/11/05)

§2. he Twins Disobey Their Father (12/18/05)

Hočąk Text — The Twins Disobey Their Father (12/18/05)

§3. The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (10/19/05)

Hočąk Text — The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (10/19/05)

§4. The Twins Get into Hot Water (10/9/05)

Hočąk Text — The Twins Get into Hot Water (10/9/05)

§5. The Twins Kill a Waterspirit (= Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins, V. 3) (10/3/05)

Hočąk Text — The Twins Kill a Waterspirit (10/3/05)

§6. The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (9/10/05)

Hočąk Text — The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (9/10/05)

The Twins Retrieve Red Star's Head (12/14/01)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Twins Retrieve Redstar's Head, Part I, pp. 1-59 (10/1/06)

Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Twins Retrieve Redstar's Head, Part II, pp. 60-123 (10/13/06)

The Two Boys (1/20/02)

The Two Brothers (5/2001)

Hočąk Text — The Two Brothers (5/2001)

The Two Children (3/13/1998)

Visit of the Woodspirit (11/2/1998)

Wanihéga Becomes a Sak'į (1/16/01)

Hočąk Text — Wanihéga Becomes a Sak'į (1/16/01)

The War among the Animals (3/5/01)

The Warbundle of the Eight Generations (10/8/00)

Waruǧápara

Waterspirit Clan Origin Myth (5/15/1998)

The Waterspirit of Lake Koshkonong (3/15/06)

The Waterspirit of Rock River (12/25/1998)

Waterspirits Keep the Corn Fields Wet (6/15/09)

Wazųka (4/15/1999)

Wears White Feathers on His Head

The Were-Fish

Hočąk Text — The Were-fish (6/24/00)

The Were-Grizzly

Hočąk Text — the Were-Grizzly (2/28/01)

White Flower

White Thunder's Warpath (2/24/00)

White Wolf

A Wife for Knowledge (4/2/04)

Hočąk Text — A Wife for Knowledge (1/2/09)

The Wild Rose

The Witch Men's Desert (12/21/05)

Wojijé

Wolf Clan Origin Myth

Wolves and Humans

Hočąk Interlinear Text — Wolves and Humans (4/29/04)

The Woman Who Became an Ant

The Woman Who Became a Walnut Tree (12/28/1999)

Hočąk Text — The Woman who Became a Walnut Tree (12/28/1999)

The Woman Who Fought the Bear

The Woman Who Loved Her Half-Brother

The Woman Who Married a Snake (8/27/1999)

The Woman's Scalp Medicine Bundle (8/4/03)

Wonáǧire Wàkšik (5/15/1998)

Wonáǧire Wàkšik Origin Myth — see Hawk Clan Origin Myth

Worúxega

Hočąk Text — Worúxega

Young Man and Naked One (title changed to Redhorn's Father)

Young Man Gambles Often (9/19/03)

Hočąk Text — Young Man Gambles Often, Part I

Hočąk Text — Young Man Gambles Often, Part II (2/14/03)

Hočąk Text — Young Man Gambles Often, Part III (8/23/03)

Hočąk Text — Young Man Gambles Often, Part IV (9/19/03)


Place Name Stories

Blue Mound (2/9/04)

Blue Mound Cave (2/6/04)

Devil's Lake — How it Got its Name (5/2002)

Dogira Spring — see Trail Spring

The Hills of La Crosse (3/15/09)

Lake Wąkšikhomįgra (Mendota): the Origin of Its Name

Lake Winnebago Origin Myth

Lost Lake (expanded, 10/8/09)

Manawa Village Origin Myth (5/20/1999)

Merrill Springs (10/9/09)

Neenah (11/10/04)

Rainbow and the Stone Arch (2/7/04)

Rattlesnake Ledge (10/9/09)

Sand Pillow (11/11/04)

Silver Mound Cave (2/8/04)

Trail Spring (2/10/04)

The Twin Sisters (3/14/1998)

Vita Spring (2/13/04)

The Winnebago Fort (6/16/05)

Winneconnee Origin Myth (7/31/00)

 

Personal Histories and Anecdotes

The Boy and the Jack Rabbit

The Chief Who Shot His Own Daughter (7/29/09)

The Difficult Blessing

Fireman's Brother (with Hočąk Text)

Four Legs

The Ice Hole (3/19/2001)

Hočąk Text — The Ice Hole (3/19/2001)

Little Priest, How He went out as a Soldier

Hočąk Text — The Story of How Little Priest went out as a Soldier (2/7/08)

Little Thunder (6/10/00)

Hočąk Text — Little Thunder (6/10/00)

The Man who was Blessed by the Sun (10/8/00)

The Man who was a Reincarnated Thunderbird (10/8/00)

The Mesquaki Magician (12/2/04)

Mitchell Red Cloud, jr. Wins the Medal of Honor (10/25/2001)

Potato Magic (2/7/05)

Hočąk Text — Potato Magic (2/7/05)


Spuria

Little Brother Snares the Sun (actually Anishinaabe)


Mention of the Hočągara in the Mythology of Other Nations

Annihilation of the Hočągara II (Menominee Version)

Origin of the Name "Winnebago" (Menominee)


Big Knife Fiction of Hočąk Inspiration

The Hunt

 Wakdjunkaga's River Race


Miscellaneous Material

Messiah Letter of Wovoka (9/10/2001)


Genealogies

| The Chief of the Heroka (+ Forked Men) | Chief of the White Cranes (+ Forked Man, Hįča Owl Spirit, the Čaručge) | "Old Man" (+ Sun, Moon, Big Eater) | The Red Man | Thunderbirds | Waterspirits (Wakčexi, Traveler +Turtle) | The Wolf Boy and His Wife |


Pictures

Index to "Pictures": | Spirits & Gods | People | History | Pictographs, Pictograms, & Engravings | Artifacts | Insignias, Emblems, Signs, and Symbols | Animals of the Air | Animals of the Earth | Animals of the Waters or Underworld | Insects | Plants | Celestial Objects | Calendrics | Places |

Spirits and Gods

| Bear Spirit with a Pipe | Ku Bird | Nut (Egyptian Goddess) | Tepeyollotl (Aztec) | Thunderbird and Waterspirit (Pictograph) | Winged Unkčeghila (Lakota) | Water Lily Jaguar (Mayan) | Waterspirit (Adapted from Da Vinci) |

People

| American Horse (Lakota) | Amisquam | Angel Decora | Arkeketah | Beauharnois | Black Hawk (Sauk) | Black Hawk the Elder (Hočąk) | Black Hawk the Younger (Hočąk) | Black Wolf | Boy in the House of Trues | Buffalo Headed Man | Chief of the Bloods (Blackfoot) | Chinook Woman | Čiząhaka (portrait | his calendar stick) | Šoǧoknįka (cited as an informant | clan affiliation: 1, 2 | photo) | Čuguga | Duck Hunting | Eskimo Couple in Profile | Four Bears (Mandan) | Four Legs | Fox Warriors | Gallery | Girl Looking Back | Hansley (Front | Profile) | Hopi Ceremony | Hočąk Chiefs | Hočąk Group Photo | Hočąk Males | Hočąk Men | Hočąk Women | Hųwąnįka (Catlin | Painting) | Kakąčuka | Keramani | Lacrosse Players (Catlin) | Little Duck | Little Otter | Little Ox | Logan | Manąpega (Catlin) | Mayan Priest | Miwok Story Telling | Mohaves | Mrs. Street | Nąka (Painting, Large | Painting, Small | Catlin's Painting) | Nicollet's Landing at Red Banks (color)) | No Fool (Kansa) | Paiute Man | Redbird | Shawnee Prophet (Painting | Catlin) | Skull | Spaniard (Hočąk) | Sturgeon Head (Fox) | Sun Chief (Pawnee) | Tahcoloquoit (Fox) | The Crow | Thin Buckskin (Pima) | Tlingit Scene | Trickster (Trickster Receiving a Pipe | Trickster with a Pole | Trickster Seated) | Tsimshian Shamans | Wačihaska | Wakąga (Painting 1 | Painting 2) | Wak'ąhaga ("Snake Skin") (portrait | cited as informant) | Wakązika (Painting | Catlin Portrait) |Whirling Thunder | White Cloud, the Winnebago Prophet | Wife of Four Legs | Winnebago Prophet | Woman Standing in Rice | Woman Fleeing | Women Playing Lacrosse | Wonder | Yellow Thunder |

History

| The Battle of Sainte Foy |

Pictographs, Pictograms, & Engravings

| Armband | Berdache (Crow) | Chins (Gottschall) | Crow Captive and His Wife | Deer from Warclub | Double Helices | Female Figure | Flesh's Disc (Twin, Gottschall) | Four-Legged Snake (Pictograph) | Four-Legged Snakes (Pictograph) | Ghost's Disc (Twin, Gottschall) | Ghost's Head (Twin, Gottschall) | Gorget & Apron | Gottschall Figure with Breasts | Gottschall Panel 5 | Huichol Diagram of the Earth | Lattice (Piasa Composition) | Merman with Net | Micmac Double Helix | Moon Figure's Disc (Gottschall) | Piasa | Piasa's Collar | Piasas (Wingless) | Piasa Swastika (Hamilton) | Piasa Swastika (Phillips & Brown) | Pictogram, "I did it" | Pictograms, "Life" & "Death" | Pictogram, "Prisoner" | Powerlines | Redhorn (Picture Cave) | Sirius (Picture Cave) | Red Figure (Gottschall) | Spirit Emblem | Thunderbird Chick | Thunderbird (Gottschall) | Two Captives | Two Captives b | Various (Pictograph) | Waterspirit 1 from Warclub | Good and Bad Waterspirits | Waterspirit & Thunderbird |

Artifacts

| Adze | Arrow (Whittled) | Aten Bas Relief (Egyptian) | Calendar Stick (Small Painting) | Calendar Stick (Large Painting) | Chief's Medallion | Column (Swirling) | Hoe (Notched) | Lodges (Lodge Construction Schematic (Dorsey) | Lodge by a Tree (Dorsey Drawing) | Medicine Rite Lodge) | Gottschall Head | Hočąk Eagle | Mississippian Images (Flower Cross Entwining Motif [Phillips IV.128] | Head [Phillips III.53] | Head [Phillips III.101] | Head with Entwining Motif [Phillips IV.131] | Head with Entwining Motif [Phillips VIB-2] | Kettle Ritual [Phillips IV.126]) | Marin Signature | Minoan Double Ax | Navajo Sand Painting | Oval Lodge | Oval Lodge Frame) | Shoshone Wikiup | Spatulate (Drilled) | Teepees | Trophies of War (Timucua) | Warclubs (Baldheaded Warclub | Flat Warclub) |

Insignias, Emblems, Signs, and Symbols

| The Chief's Medallion | de Carrie Coat of Arms | Disease Giver's Emblem | Dogrib Flag | Earth's Emblem | Earthmaker's Cross | Earthmaker's Emblem | Earthmaker Flag | Fire's Emblem | Heroka's Emblem | Indian Sign Language, "Medicine" | Indian Sign Language, "Sun, Moon, Star" | Innu Flag | Moon's Emblems | Morning Star's Emblem | Nightspirit Emblems | Scratch (Piasa Composition) | Solar Emblem | South Wind's Emblem | Thunderbird Emblem | Turtle's Emblem |

Animals of the Air

| Auklets | Bald Eagle (Drawing) | Bank Swallow | Bird Feeding Its Young | Blue Jay | Crane (Sandhill) | Curlew (Audubon Painting | Drawing) | Ducks (Flying Wood Duck | Old Squaw Ducks | Old Squaw Duck (Head)) | Flock of Birds (Photo) | Goose | Hawks & Kites (Black Hawk (= American Swallow-tail Kite) | Pigeon Hawk | Rough-Legged Hawk | Hawk & Quail (Small Picture | Large Picture) | Hummingbirds (Audubon Painting 1 | Audubon Painting 2) | Kaǧi (Crows & Ravens) (Crow (Audubon) | Crow's Nest | Raven (Audubon)) | King Bird | Kingfisher | Loon | Meadow Lark | Owls (Great Horned Owl | Owl at Night (Drawing) | Snowy Owl | Two Owls (Photo)) | Pheasant (Drawing) | Pigeon | Prairie Chicken | Robin | Quail (Bobwhite) (See Hawk & Quail) | Snow Bunting (Snowbird) | Swan (Photo) | Snowy Egret (Audubon Painting | Photo) | Turkeys (Wild Turkey (Audubon) | Wild Turkey (Audubon) 2 | Turkey with Spread Tail (Painting)) Vultures and Buzzards (Tropical (Photo) | Turkey Vulture | Black Vulture) |

Animals of the Earth

| Bears (Black Bear | Brown Bears (Audubon Painting | Engraving) | Grizzly Bears (Audubon Painting | Photo) | Polar Bear (Drawing)) | Polar Bear | Buffalo (Profile (Photo) | Head (Engraving) | Herd (Photo)) | Chipmunk | Coyote (Coyote (Drawing) | Coyotes (Engraving | Photo) | Deer (Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3 | Drawing) | Dormouse | Elk | Fisher | Foxes (Fox (Drawing) | Gray Fox | Red Fox (painting by Bonheur)) | Horses | Marten | Minks (Audubon Painting | Wood Cut) Mountain Lions (Cougars, Pumas, Panthers) (Cougar (Drawing) | Puma (Photo)) | Muskrats (Audubon Painting | Engraving) | Opossums | Porcupines (Porcupine (Photo) | Porcupine in a Tree (Drawing)) | Rabbit (Photo) | Raccoons (Raccoon (Drawing) | Raccoon (Bitmap Drawing)) | Skunk | Squirrels (Gray Squirrel Eating an Acorn (Photo) | Squirrel (Photo) | Pine Squirrel (Photo)) | Wildcats (Bobcats, Lynx) (Bobcat (Photo) | Lynx | Wildcat) | Wolves (Black Wolf | Gray Wolves at a Kill (Photo) | Prairie Wolf | White Wolves (Photo)) | Wolf Track |

Animals of the Waters or Underworld

| Alligator | American Beaver | Crayfish (Photo) | Fish (Fish (Painting) | Fish Jumping (Drawing) | Sturgeon) | Frogs & Turtles (Golden Frog | Tortoise | Starred Tortoise | Sea Turtle) | Otter (wood cut) | White Otter | Snakes (Bull Snake | Diamond Backed Rattlesnake | Ribbon Snake) |

Insects

| Ants (Drawing) | Butterflies (Butterflies | Spotted Butterfly) | Cricket | Flea | Grasshopper | Horsefly 1 | Horsefly 2 | Lice (Body Louse | Crab Louse | Head Louse | Louse, Nit) |

Plants

| Acorn | Apios Americana Canuti | Apple Tree | Arbor Vitæ (White Cedar) (Arbor Vitæ (White Cedar) — Photo of Sprig | Arbor Vitæ (White Cedar) — Drawing of Leaves & Cones | Arbor Vitæ Cones (Buds)) | Artichokes | Barley | Basswood (Leaves | Tree) | Beans (Beans | Ground Beans) | Cattails | Chokeberry | Dog Tooth | Ferns (Maidenhair Ferns) | Groundnut Tubers | Jack Pine (Trees | Photo of Needles & Cones | Drawing of Needles & Cones) | Juniper (Red Cedar) (Sprig | Tree) | Maize (Field of Maize | Indian Corn | Yellow Maize) | Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa | Asclepias curassavica) | Mulberry | Pines | Pitcher Plant | Plums | Pond Lily | Poplars (Black Poplar | White Poplar | White Poplar Leaves) | Prairie Turnip (Plant | Tubers) | Red Oak | Rice (Menominee) | Roses (Rose (Painting) | The Wild Rose (Photo)) | Squash, Sacred Indian Rattle | Sumac | Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum) | Walnuts (Black Walnuts | Walnut Tree ID (Painting) | Walnut on Tree) | Wheat | Willow Leaves |

 

Celestial Objects

| 3-Deer & Venus | 3-Deer 933 AD | 3-Deer Setting | Antares & the Milky Way | Aquilla | Aurora | Bear Knoll | Bear Lodge & Polaris | Bear Lodge & Sun, 7/11/1753 | Bow & Arrow Stars | Canis Major | Cirrus Clouds | Columba | Deneb & Its Vicinity | Deneb and Stretcher Asterism | Evening Star & the Moon, 1696 | Evening Star at Antares, 0715 | Evening Star at Antares, 0730 | Evening Star at Antares, Sunset | Evening Star's Course, 1741 | Hand (Mississippian) | Jupiter, 1756.09.25 | Jupiter, 1757.12.09 | Lupus | Mamhuaztli | Milky Way as Tree, 0342 Hours | Milky Way as Tree, 0421 Hours | Milky Way as Tree, 0444 Hours | Milky Way as Tree, 0543 Hours | Milky Way at Scorpius | Morning Star's Trail | Orion & the Path of the Moon | Orion & the Path of the Moon, 2 | Orion as Fire Drill, Sunrise | Orion as Fire Drill, Sunset | Orion: Įčorúšika and His 2 Brothers | Orion as an Ax | Orion's Belt and Sword Stars | Orion Constellation | Orion as Hand | Orion as Packing Strap | Orion Star Colors |Orion Stellagraphy | Polaris & the Milky Way at the Summer Solstice | Polaris & the Pointer Stars of the Dipper | Polaris & the Sun at the Summer Solstice | Polaris in April | Polaris in August | Polaris in December | Polaris in February | Polaris in October | Polaris Earbob Stars | Redhorn's Ear Stars | Redhorn Pattern in Orion | Sagittarius | Scorpius | Scorpius, 1750 | Sirius, Heliacal Rising | Sirius & the Sun on the Same Side of the Milky Way, 7/27/933 | Sirius & the Sun on the Same Side of the Milky Way, 5/15/934 | Sunrise, August 22, 1729 | Taurus | Thunderbird Asterism | Wrinkles on the Face of the Sun |

Calendrics

Aztec Day Signs, in Temporal Order |Cipactli, Ehecatl, Calli, Cuetzpalin, Coatl, Miquiztli, Mazatl, Tochtli, Atl, Itzcuintli, Ozomahtli, Malinalli, Acatl, Ocelotl, Cuauhtli, Cozcacuauhtli, Ollin, Tecpatl, Quiahuitl, Xochitl | Aztec Yearbearer Cycle |

Places

| Balanced Rock | Barn Bluff | Devil's Doorway | Devil's Lake, Scene 1 | Devil's Lake, Scene 2 | Eagle Cave Room | Ft. de Chartres | Lake Mendota | Maiden Rock | Petenwell Rock | Pheasant Branch | Pulpit (Standing) Rock | Red Wing's Village | Trempealeau Mountain | Waterfall (Photo) | Wisconsin Dells | Yahara River |


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