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Thank, that’s a great link. I have it bookmarked somewhere but never got back it. It’s would behoove us to study all this extensive ‘folklore’ and question how dissimilar our people’s would have been. There must be some way to gauge this. I particular like the Trickster tales, which I’ve seen from other tribes, siouan.
Check out the ‘Trickster and his Penis.” We’re not talking about a Puritanical culture here. Instead earthy and a bit raucaus. Hey, this is sounds like Felicia. Don’t show her that story. We’ll never hear the end of it. Next thing we know, it’ll be Trickster did this, and Trickster did that.
I, too used to visit this site often but lost track of it. Yah! We need to be wary that what we first judge a situation to be may be coyote misleading us. Linda, it’s good you have Felicia to help keep a look out!
To have these stories instead of TV, books and movies would be very rich. Though I’d like to see them brought to life on a movie screen. There is always a science-fiction quality about them if describing them through euro-culture.
One of my favorites is White Flower:
http://www.hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.WhiteFlower.html
There is a book by Paul Radin, The Winnebago Tribe. When I bought it a Winnebago friend told me it was an excellent book with much knowledge in it. It has alot of black and white illustrations of woven objects, moccasins, clothing and much more. There is alot of language, and names with translations. I’ve never heard Hochunk spoken and I don’t understand the lexicon. Google Books has a preview. The cover painting shown is by Laurie Houseman-Whitehawk. She visited a class I was in and told of her life and work. She likes painting people in their regalia dancing:
From the site techteach posted above:
http://www.hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.GatschetHotchankHit’e.html#anchor7552695
Hotcâk Origins
Winnebagos are said to have emigrated form Red Bank, north or northeast of Green Bay, east side of Lake Michigan, they call it Moka cútc-edja from móka bank, cútc red. There is a tradition that some of the Winnebagos are lost, and that they are somewhere south.
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