Winnebago Texts

Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk
Language: English | Ho-Chunk
Date: 1959
Contributor: Blackhawk, Andrew | Fraenkel, Gerd | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Smoke, Elias James | Stacy, Alvin | Stacy, Stella | Thundercloud, Adam
Subject: Folklore | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Warfare | Wisconsin--History
Type: Sound recording
Genre: Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 14 sound tape reels (13 hr., 54 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Ho-Chunk songs and stories, primarily given in Ho-Chunk only. Includes stories on a variety of topics, including traditional stories, historical events, and discussions of ceremonies and traditional lifeways. Also includes linguistic elicitations sessions for words and phrases, as well as re-readings of Ho-Chunk texts published by Paul Radin. Most of the recordings contains a continuous background hum. Copies made by Gerd Fraenkel of his own original tapes held at the Archives of Languages of the World, Indiana University. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection: Winnebago Texts Mss.Rec.29