Tuesday Sep 28, 2010
Historic Indian Agency House, east of Portage, off Hwy 33, down Rustic Road 69. FREE TO THE PUBLIC
Destinee Udelhoven, Director 608-742-6362
The Historic Indian Agency House wraps up its popular “Their Side of the Story” speaker series this month. The fourth and final installment will take place on Tuesday, September 28 at 6:30PM.
At this time, UW-Madison Senior Academic Librarian Janice Rice will present “Ho-Chunk Leadership: Yesterday and Today.” Ms. Rice will discuss historic and modern traditions of governance and decision-making within the Ho-Chunk culture, including the clan system and traditional leadership roles held by Ho-Chunk women. The presentation will also briefly touch on the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act and its effect on Ho-Chunk governance and leadership. In light of America’s enduring debate over how power should be distributed within our own government, Rice’s topic is sure to spark cultural comparisons, thought and reflection. Rice, a Ho-Chunk nation member, serves on a variety of national, state, inter-tribal, and city-tribal organizations. Additionally, for ten years she served on the Wisconsin Historical Society Board of Curators, and is now Curator Emeritus.
The museum and visitor’s center exhibits, always free to the public, will be open 5PM until the lecture begins, and a guided tour of the Historic Indian Agency House itself will also be offered immediately prior to the lecture, at 5:30PM, for a minimal fee. Light refreshments will be provided for lecture guests.
“Their Side of the Story”: The Ho-Chunk at the Portage Speaker Series has consisted of one lecture a month, and ran from June to September. Each lecture, held on the last Tuesday of the month, focused on a different aspect of the Ho-Chunk experience in the Portage area.
On August 31st, noted author and UW-Waukesha professor Robert Birmingham presented a fascinating synopsis of over 11,000 years of Native American occupation of the Columbia County area. Birmingham’s discussion of earthen burial and ceremonial mounds was especially interesting, including his assertion that central and southwestern Wisconsin are the heartland of the mound culture. Nowhere else on earth, Birmingham noted, are so many mounds concentrated in such a small geographical area. Despite a near repeat of July’s intense heat and humidity, the lecture drew a sizeable crowd of nearly 40.
Each installment of this educational series is free to the public and only possible because of a generous grant from the Great Circle Foundation, Inc. of East Northport, New York. For further information on this and other Agency House programming, call Director Destinee Udelhoven at (608) 742-6362.
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