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World-renowned chef, community builder, and member of the Ho-Chunk Nation Elena Terry sees food as an opportunity for preserving tradition, and a canvas for creativity.
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For over a decade, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension has been nurturing citizen science through its Master Naturalist program.
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We explore a natural area in southwest Wisconsin. The Kickapoo Valley Reserve not only features trout streams and water coming down over rock ledges but also holds great Indigenous significance.
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Tee Sisikeja (Bad Waters Village), located in Wisconsin State Fair grounds, is adorned with a new marker. The mound is one of few sites remaining of its kind in Wisconsin.
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An unusual flotilla set out last week starting in Madison and ending 40 nautical miles downstream in the Rock River in Beloit. It featured a hand-hewn dugout canoe, fashioned after those used by long-ago ancestors of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
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Gaming plays a major role in how Wisconsin tribes figure out their annual budgets and when COVID-19 forced casinos to close their doors, it pushed Wisconsin’s eleven federally recognized tribes to face a long awaited challenge: how to diversify their economies away from gaming.
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One of the most significant tribes in the Milwaukee area is the Ho Chunk Nation — their history goes all the way back to when the glaciers were still on the Great Lakes. Bill Quackenbush, Ho Chunk Nation’s Tribal Preservation Officer, describes the historical fight for the Ho Chunk people to remain on their native land.
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For most Native Americans in Wisconsin, their languages are no longer what they speak at home or in day-to-day life. But Michael Zimmerman Junior, an Indigenous language specialist and consultant, is hoping to revitalize the language, and reestablish its prominence in these communities.
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Gov. Scott Walker says he’s going through volumes of information that the Menominee gave him, in their proposal for a Kenosha casino.He originally planned…
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The Menominee tribe has until Tuesday to win unanimous support for a new casino in Kenosha.The tribe wants to build a Hard Rock International complex at…