page_title: Ho-Chunk
section_title: Ho-Chunk people
hierarchical_section_title: Ho-Chunk / Ho-Chunk people
caption_attribution_description: Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., United States Army, Korean War Medal of Honor recipient.
context_page_description: The Ho-Chunk, also known as Hoocągra or Winnebago, are a Siouan-speaking Native American people whose historic territory includes parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Today, Ho-Chunk people are enrolled in two federally recognized tribes, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
  The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska have an Indian reservation in Nebraska. While related, the two tribes are distinct federally recognized sovereign nations and peoples, each having its own constitutionally formed government, and completely separate governing and business interests.
  Since the late 20th century, both tribal councils have authorized the development of casinos to generate revenue to support economic development, infrastructure, health care and education. The Ho-Chunk Nation is working on language restoration and has developed a Hoocąk-language iOS app. Since 1988, it has pursued a claim to the Badger Army Ammunition Plant as traditional territory; the area has since been declared surplus, but the Ho-Chunk have struggled with changes in policy at the Department of the Interior.
context_section_description: Angel De Cora, artist and educator
  Joba Chamberlain, Major league baseball pitcher
  Henry Roe Cloud, born 1884, Yale graduate, educator
  Glory of the Morning, 18th-century chief
  Hononegah, co-founder of Rockton, Illinois
  Bronson Koenig, basketball player on a two-way contract with the Milwaukee Bucks and their G League affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd
  Truman Lowe, artist
  Red Bird, chief and leader during the 1827 Winnebago War
  Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
  Red Wing (also known as Lillian St. Cyr), film actress
  John Raymond Rice, World War II and Korean War hero, recipient of the Bronze Star
  Chief Waukon Decorah, warrior and orator
  Mountain Wolf Woman, an early 19th-century convert to the Peyote religion
  Chief Yellow Thunder (also known as Waun-kaun-tshaw-zee-kau)
  Betsy Thunder, Traditional doctor
  Sharice Davids (b. 1980), assumed office in 2019 as the US Representative from Kansas's 3rd Congressional District, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress
caption: Cpl. Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
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