Hoc=?UTF-8?Q?=C4=85k/Winnebago_?=name? "Wiscopawis"

[Mary C Marino]

Jimm --

I have been following these discussions with great attention, but this 
one has me completely at a loss -- could you help us out with this?

Best
Mary


On 19/09/2013 5:01 PM, Jimm G. GoodTracks wrote:
> Hintado, Hochanga wan^shige iyanki iswanxesdun ke, iswahunge ke. 
> Elaine ithge eswena.
>
> *From:* Saul Schwartz <mailto:sschwart at PRINCETON.EDU>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:25 PM
> *To:* SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu <mailto:SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu>
> *Subject:* Hocąk/Winnebago name? "Wiscopawis"
>
> Hello,
>
> An archaeologist colleague of mine working on the cultural affiliation 
> of Effigy Mound sites in Wisconsin asked me to see if anyone on this 
> list could help with a name associated with a possible mid-19th 
> century Winnebago oral tradition of mound building. The name is 
> "Wiscopawis." Sound Hocąk? Any suggestions for a translation? More 
> information below.
>
> All best,
> Saul
>
> The name is in a letter by Rev. Silas Hawley that was published in a 
> newspaper, the /Dodge County/ [WI] /Citizen/, some time before 
> 1880. The article was reprinted in the /History of Dodge County, 
> Wisconsin/ (1880), pp. 452-453. The full quote, from the reprint, is:
>
> "Wiscopawis, chief of the Winnebagoes, prior to the tribes being 
> removed to their western reservation, in conversation with M. Shafer, 
> Esq., of Beaver Dam, told him the spring was much prized by his 
> tribe." Earlier in the article, Hawley referred to "Much-kaw, the 
> great medicine chief of the Winnebagoes."
>
> Shafer (1820-?) was a "general repairer of jewelry" who moved to 
> Beaver Dam in 1854. Hawley (1815-1888) is listed as having been on a 
> committee concerned with Presbyterian "missions to the Dakotas, 
> Ojibwas, Senecas, Tuscaroras, and Abenaquis" (/The Missionary Herald/, 
> v. 51, n. 10, p. 295, 1855).

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