Today, only about 10 Ho-Chunk artists still make the baskets, and the black ash trees they are made from are becoming extinct. An exhibition of Ho-Chunk baskets is running at the Paine Art Center and ...
Black chokeberries, elderberries, nanny berries, service berries, butternut, shagbark hickory nuts and wild plums were among the fruits and nuts that sustained the Ho-Chunk people for hundreds of ...