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The Format • Updated, 3/7/2013
Glossary of Non-Indian Nations
Radin's Winnebago Notebooks at the American Philosophical Society
Susman's Winnebago Notebooks at the American Philosophical Society
McKern's Winnebago Notebook at the Milwaukee Public Museum • Includes all the original MSS
Hočąk Syllabary, Transliteration, and Pronunciation • Corrected, upgraded, and expanded to include McKern and Helmbrecht-Lehmann, 2/11/2013
Carte du Pays des Sauvages Renards, 1730 (Lake Winnebago and Vicinity)
De Soto, McGregor, Paint Rock, La Crosse, Prairie du Chien
Manawa in Relation to Green Bay
The Five Apparitions of Morning Star
The Rise of Morning Star • 9/9/2012
Word and Phrase Lists
Foster's Word List -
Gatschet & StCyr, "Hotchank hit’é: The Winnebago Language"
Hočąk Vocabulary (unknown compiler), ISIL 1880 Format
Hočąk Texts
The Abduction and Rescue of Trickster | The Animal that would Eat Men | The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men (v. 1) | The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men (v. 2) | Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men | Bear Clan Origin Myth, v. 7 | Bear Clan Origin Myth, v. 8 | Bear Offers Himself as Food (v. 2) | Beliefs Concerning Ghosts | Big Eater | Bird Clan Origin Myth | The Birth of the Twins (v. 1) | The Birth of the Twins (v. 2) | The Birth of the Twins (v. 3) | Bladder and His Brothers (v. 1) | Bladder and His Brothers (v. 2) | Bladder and His Brothers, v. 5 | Bladder and His Brothers (v. 6) | The Blessing of the Bow | Bluehorn Rescues His Sister | The Boy Who Flew | The Boy who would be Immortal - 1 | The Boy who would be Immortal - 2 | Brave Man Gambles | The Brown Squirrel | The Buffalo's Walk | The Bungling Host | The Canine Warrior | The Captive Boys | The Claw Shooter | The Completion Song Origin | Coughing Up Black Hawks | Creation of the World, v. 11 | Deer Clan Origin Myth (v. 1) | Descent of the Drum, Version 1 | Descent of the Drum (v. 2) | The Dipper | Disease Giver Blesses Jobenągiwįxka | Dying in War | Earthmaker Blesses Wešgíšega (v. 2) | Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins (v. 1) | Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins (v. 2) | East Enters the Medicine Lodge (v. 1) | East Enters the Medicine Lodge (v. 2) | East Shakes the Messenger | The Elk's Skull | Farewell Songs |The Fatal House | The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (v. 1) | The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (v. 2) | The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee (v. 3) | Fighting Retreat | Fireman's Brother | First Contact | The Fleetfooted Man | The Four Services Songs | The Four Slumbers Origin Myth | The Four Steps of the Cougar | The Fox-Hočąk War | Ghost Dance Origin Myth I | Ghost Dance Origin Myth II | A Giant Visits His Daughter | The Gift of Shooting | Grandmother's Gifts | Hare Burns His Buttocks | Hare Establishes Bear Hunting | Hare Gets Swallowed | Hare Kills a Man with a Cane | Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans (v. 2) | Hare Steals the Fish | Hawk Clan Origin Myth | Heroka Songs | Historical Origins of the Medicine Rite | Hog's Adventures | Holy One and His Brother | How Little Priest went out as a Soldier | The Ice Hole | Iron Staff and His Companions | The Island Weight Songs | Įčorúšika and His Brothers | Journey to Spiritland, v. 1a | Journey to Spiritland, v. 1b | Journey to Spiritland (v. 4) | Journey to Spiritland, v. 5 | Journey to Spiritland (v. 6) | Journey to Spiritland (v. 8) | Kaǧiga | The Lame Friend | Little Fox is Invited to a Feast | Little Fox Goes on the Warpath | Little Human Head | Little Thunder | The Lord's Prayer | The Lost Blanket, v. 1 | The Lost Blanket (v. 2) | A Man's Revenge | The Man with Two Heads | The Man who went to the Upper & Lower Worlds | The Man Whose Wife was Captured (v. 1) | The Markings on the Moon (v. 2) (with notes by Gatschet) | Mąznį’ąbera | Medicine Rite Foundation Myth (v. 2) | Medicine Rite Foundation Myth (v. 4) | The Messengers of Hare (v. 1) | The Messengers of Hare, v. 2a (First Telling) | The Messengers of Hare, v. 2b (Second Telling) | Migistéga | Mink Soils the Princess | A Mink Tricks Trickster | The Mission of the Five Sons of Earthmaker (v. 2) | Morning Star and His Friend | The Necessity for Death (v. 2) | The Necessity for Death (v. 3) |The Nightspirits Bless Čiwoit’éhiga | The Nightspirits Bless Jobenągiwįxka | The Old Man and the Giants | Old Man and Wears White Feather |The Omahas who Turned into Snakes | Origin of the Decorah Family | The Osage Massacre | Paint Medicine Origin Myth | The Pointing Man (v. 1) | The Pointing Man (v. 2) | Potato Magic | A Prophecy | Resurrection of the Chief's Daughter | Rich Man, Boy, and Horse | The Scenting Contest | The Seer | Shakes the Earth | The Shell Anklets Origin Myth (v. 2) | A Sioux Story | Snake Song Origin Myth | Snowshoe Strings | Soldier Dance Songs | The Song to the Elephant | Song of the Mouse | South Enters the Medicine Lodge (v. 1) | South Enters the Medicine Lodge (v. 2) | South Seizes the Messenger | The Stone that Turned into a Frog | The Story of the Thunder Names | Šųgepaga | The Sweetened Drink Song | Testing the Slave, Version 1 | Testing the Slave (v. 2) | Thunderbird and White Horse | Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth (v. 3) | Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth, v. 7 | Thunder Cloud is Blessed | Thunder Cloud Marries Again | Tobacco Origin Myth (v. 3) | Tobacco Origin Myth (v. 4) | Tobacco Origin Myth (v. 5) | Traveler and the Thunderbird War (v. 1) | Trickster and the Children | Trickster and the Dancers (v. 2) | Trickster and the Mothers | Trickster Concludes His Mission | Trickster Eats the Laxative Bulb (v. 2) | Trickster Gets Pregnant | Trickster Loses His Meal, Version 1 | Trickster Loses Most of His Penis | Trickster Takes Little Fox for a Ride | Trickster Visits His Family | Trickster's Adventures in the Ocean | Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks (v. 1) | Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks (v. 2) | Trickster's Buffalo Hunt | Trickster's Penis | Trickster's Tail | Trickster's Warpath | Turtle and the Giant | Turtle and the Merchant | Turtle's Warparty (v. 2) | Turtle's Warparty (v. 3) | The Twins Disobey Their Father (v. 1) | The Twins Disobey Their Father (v. 2) | The Twins Disobey Their Father (v. 3) | The Twins Get into Hot Water (v. 1) | The Twins Get into Hot Water (v. 2) | The Twins Get into Hot Water (v. 3) | The Twins Join Redhorn's Warparty | The Twins Kill a Waterspirit (Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins, v. 3) | The Twins Retrieve Redstar's Head: 1-59 | The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (v. 1) | The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (v. 2) | The Twins Visit Their Father's Village (v. 3) | The Two Boys | The Two Brothers | Wanihéga Becomes a Sak’į | Waterspirit Bluehorn (Brave Man) | The Were-fish (v. 2) | The Were-Grizzly | A Wife for Knowledge | Wolves and Humans | The Woman who Became a Walnut Tree | Worúxega | Young Man Gambles Often |
The McKern Papers on Hočąk Ethnography, Printed Version • 2/22/2013
Is the Chaco Canyon Rock Art a Star Map Showing SN 1054?
Gottschall: A New Interpretation
Grizzlyman as a Preform of Blue Bear • 5/20/2013
The Redhorn Panel at Picture Cave: An American Star Map
Table: The Correspondence of the Moon at Various Dates with the Winged Oval Figure
Denoting Marks of the Redhorn Panel and Their Astronomical Values
The Thruston Tablet: Deciphering the Iconography of an Ancient Twins Cycle • 12/25/2012 (revised, V. 3, 1/16/2013)
see also, The Rise of Morning Star
Subject Entries (Personages, Lands, Sacred Objects, Concepts)
Calendar — see Moon
Cougars (Mountain Lions, Pumas, Panthers)
Crows, see Kaǧi
Grandmother — see Earth
Great Spirit — see Earthmaker (Mą’ųna)
Hare (Wašjįgéga, Rabbit)See also The Hare Cycle
Hočąk-English Interlinear Text — Heroka Songs
see also, The Redhorn Panel at Picture Cave: An American Star Map
[He Who has] Human Heads as Earlobes — see Redhorn
Kaǧi (Crows, Ravens)
Kečągéga — see Turtle
Mą’ųna — see Earthmaker
see also, The Rise of Morning Star
Mountain Lions — see Cougars
Rabbit (Wašjįgéga) — see Hare
Ravens, see Kaǧi
Red Star — see Bluehorn
See also The Redhorn Cycle, The Redhorn Panel at Picture Cave: An American Star Map
See also The Redhorn Cycle
Traveler • Material from McKern added, 3/25/2013
Trickster (Wakjąkága)
See also The Trickster Cycle
Turtle (Kečąkega)
Wašjįgéga — see Hare
Wakjąkaga — see Trickster
Wanąǧi — see Ghosts
Waterspirits • Material from McKern added, 3/25/2013
Wood Spirits • Material from W. C. McKern added, 12/25/2013
The Animal Spirit Aids of the Medicine Rite
The Annihilation of the Hočągara I
Annihilation of the Hočągara II
The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men
Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth
Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men
Hočąk Syllabic Text — Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men
The Bear Clan Origin Myth • 90 Bear Clan personal names added from McKern's notebook, 2/27/2013 • retelling of Version 8 has been replaced by a translation, 4/16/2013 • Version 8 given a commentary, 4/17/2013
Big Thunder Teaches Čap’ósgaga the Warpath
Hočąk Text — Bird Clan Origin Myth
Quapah Convergences with the Common Winnebago-Chiwere Clan System (Table)
Osage and Hočąk Clans Compared (Table)
Omaha and Hočąk Clans Compared (Table)
Hočąk Syllabic Text — Bladder and His Brothers, Version 1
Hočąk Text — Bladder and His Brothers, Version 2
The Blessing of a Bear Clansman
The Blessings of the Buffalo Spirits
The Boy Captured by the Bad Thunderbirds
The Boy who was Blessed by a Mountain Lion
Brass and Red Bear Boy • a Sioux parallel added, 1/30/2013
The Commandments of Earthmaker
The Cosmic Ages of the Hočągara
Coyote and the Ghost, see Little Fox and the Ghost
Coyote Goes on the Warpath, see Little Fox Goes on the Warpath
The Daughter-in-Law's Jealousy
Devil's Lake — How It Got Its Name
Disease Giver Blesses Jobenągiwįxka
The Dog that became a Panther • Retelling was replaced by the version from McKern's notebook, and a commentary was added, 2/3/2013
The Dog Who Saved His Master • 12/30/2012
The Dogs of the Chief's Son • Retelling was replaced by the version from McKern's notebook, and a commentary was added, 2/3/2013
Earthmaker Blesses Wagíšega (Wešgíšega)
East Enters the Medicine Lodge
The Ghost Dance Origin Myth II
The Girl who Refused a Blessing from the Wood Spirits
Great Walker and the Anishinaabe Witches
The Green Waterspirit of the Wisconsin Dells
§5. Hare Visits His Grandfather Bear
§6. Grandmother Packs the Bear Meat
§7. Hare Visits the Bodiless Heads
§8. Hare Kills a Man with a Cane
Hočąk Text — Hare Burns His Buttocks [incomplete]
§12. Hare and the Dangerous Frog
§13. Hare Retrieves a Stolen Scalp
§14. Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans
Hočąk Syllabic Text — Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans, v. 2
Hare Secures the Creation Lodge of the Medicine Rite
Hawk Clan Origin Myth • New material added on the Hawk Clan, 2/18/2013
Eats the Stinking Part of the Deer Ankle
The Hill that Devoured Men and Animals
Historical Origins of the Medicine Rite
The Hočągara Contest the Giants
Holy One and His Brother • Retelling replaced with a translation, 4/12/2013
The Horse Spirit of Eagle Heights
How the Hills and Valleys were Formed
How the Thunders Met the Nights, or, The Live Iron (Mąznį’ąbera)
Hočąk Syllabic Text — Įčorúšika
see also, The Redhorn Panel at Picture Cave: An American Star Map
Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 1a
Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 1b
Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 4
Hočąk Text — Journey to Spiritland, Version 5
Little Fox Goes on the Warpath
The Love Blessing (with two love songs)
The Man who Defied Disease Giver
The Man who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds
The Man Who Would Dream of Mą’ųna
The Man Whose Wife was Captured
Hočąk Text — The Markings on the Moon, Version 2 (with notes by Gatschet)
The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth
Menominee Origins (= Bear Clan Origin Myth, v. 2b)
Hočąk Text — The Messengers of Hare, Version 1
Hočąk Text —The Messengers of Hare, Version 2a (First Telling)
Hočąk Text —The Messengers of Hare, Version 2b (Second Telling)
Mijistéga and the Sauks • 1/2/2013
The Mission of the Five Sons of Earthmaker
Hočąk Text — The Mission of the Five Sons of Earthmaker, V. 2
The Nightspirits Bless Čiwoit’éhiga
The Nightspirits Bless Jobenągiwįxka
The Oak Tree and the Man Who was Blessed by the Heroka
Old Man and Wears White Feather
Old Woman and the Maple Tree Spirit
The Omahas who turned into Snakes
The Orphan who was Blessed with a Horse
Otter Comes to the Medicine Rite
Pete Dupeé and the Ghosts • 12/26/2012
The Raccoon Coat • Commentary created, 3/6/2013
A Raccoon Tricks Four Blind Me
§1. The Race for the Chief's Daughter
§3. Redhorn and His Brothers Marry
§4. Redhorn Contests the Giants
§5. The Sons of Redhorn Find Their Father
The Resurrection of the Chief's Daughter
River Child and the Waterspirit of Devil's Lake
The Shawnee Prophet and His Ascension
The Shawnee Prophet — What He Told the Hočągara
The Sioux Warparty and the Waterspirit of Green Lake
Snake Clan Origins (fragmentary)
South Enters the Medicine Lodge • Retelling of version 1 replaced by a translation, and a commentary added 3/15/2013
The Story of the Thunder Names
Hočąk Text — Tobacco Origin Myth, Version 1
Hočąk Text — Tobacco Origin Myth, Version 3
Traveler and the Thunderbird War
§3. Trickster and the Children
§4. Trickster's Adventures in the Ocean
§6. Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks
Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks (v. 1)
§8. The Abduction and Rescue of Trickster
§10. Trickster Visits His Family
§11. Trickster Eats the Laxative Bulb
Hočąk Syllabic Text — Trickster Eats the Laxative Bulb, Version 2
§12. Trickster and the Mothers
§17. Trickster Loses Most of His Penis
§21. Trickster Takes Little Fox for a Ride
§22. Trickster Concludes His Mission
Trickster, Wolf, Lark, and Turtle
The Twins Cycle of Sam Blowsnake (Version 1)
§2. The Twins Disobey Their Father
§3. The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee
Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee
§4. The Twins Get into Hot Water
§5. The Twins Visit Their Father's Village
Hočąk Syllabic Text — The Twins Visit Their Father's Village
§6. The Twins Join Redhorn's Warparty
§7. Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins
The Twins Cycle of Jasper Blowsnake (Version 2)
§2. The Twins Disobey Their Father
§3. The Twins Get into Hot Water
§4. The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee
§5. The Twins Visit Their Father's Village
§7. Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins
The Twins Cycle (Version 3 of Amelia Susman)
§2. he Twins Disobey Their Father
§3. The Father of the Twins Attempts to Flee
§4. The Twins Get into Hot Water
§5. The Twins Kill a Waterspirit (= Earthmaker Sends Rušewe to the Twins, V. 3)
§6. The Twins Visit Their Father's Village
The Twins Retrieve Red Star's Head
The Warbundle Maker • 12/15/2012
A Waterspirit Blesses Mąnį́xete’ų́ga • 12/23/2012
The Waterspirit of Lake Koshkonong
A Weed's Blessing • 12/11/2012
Why Dogs Sniff One Another • 12/20/2012
The Woman Who Became a Walnut Tree
The Woman Who Loved Her Half-Brother
The Woman's Scalp Medicine Bundle
Wonáǧire Wákšik Origin Myth — see Hawk Clan Origin Myth
Big Spring and White Clay Spring
Devil's Lake — How it Got its Name
Dogira Spring — see Trail Spring
Lake Wąkšikhomįgra (Mendota): the Origin of Its Name
Origin of the Hočąk Name for Chicago
Origin of the Name "Milwaukee"
Personal Histories and Anecdotes
The Arapaho Girl • 12/10/2012
Black as Sin • 12/12/2012
The Chief Who Shot His Own Daughter
The Death of Henry Harris’ Daughter
Fireman's Brother (with Hočąk Text)
James’ Horse • 12/20/2012
Little Priest, How He went out as a Soldier
Hočąk Text — The Story of How Little Priest went out as a Soldier
The Man who was Blessed by the Sun
The Man who was a Reincarnated Thunderbird
A Peyote Story • 12/16/2012
A Peyote Vision • 12/17/2012
They Owe a Bullet (with three warrior songs)
Foreign Stories Told by the Hočągara
The Incarnate Thunderbird • 1/30/2013
Why the Tonkawa are Called "Cannibals" • 2/9/2013
Mention of the Hočągara in the Mythology of Other Nations
Big Knife Fiction of Hočąk Inspiration
| The Chief of the Heroka (+ Forked Men) | Chief of the White Cranes (+ Forked Man, Hįča Owl Spirit, the Čaručge) | "Old Man" (+ Sun, Moon, Big Eater) | The Red Man | Thunderbirds | Waterspirits (Wakčexi, Traveler +Turtle) | The Wolf Boy and His Wife |
Little Brother Snares the Sun (actually Anishinaabe)
Index to "Pictures": | Spirits & Gods | People | History | Pictographs, Pictograms, & Engravings | Artifacts | Insignias, Emblems, Signs, and Symbols | Animals of the Air | Animals of the Earth | Animals of the Waters or Underworld | Insects | Plants | Celestial Objects | Calendrics | Places |
| Bear Spirit with a Pipe | Ku Bird | Nut (Egyptian Goddess) | Tepeyollotl (Aztec) | Thunderbird and Waterspirit (Pictograph) | Winged Unkčeghila (Lakota) | Water Lily Jaguar (Mayan) | Waterspirit (Adapted from Da Vinci) |
| American Horse (Lakota) | Amisquam | Angel Decora | Arkeketah | Beauharnois | Black Hawk (Sauk) | Black Hawk the Elder (Hočąk) | Black Hawk the Younger (Hočąk) | Black Wolf | Boy in the House of Trues | Buffalo Headed Man | Chief of the Bloods (Blackfoot) | Chinook Woman | Čiząhaka (portrait | his calendar stick) | Šoǧoknįka (cited as an informant | clan affiliation: 1, 2 | photo) | Čuguga | Duck Hunting | Eskimo Couple in Profile | Four Bears (Mandan) | Four Legs | Fox Warriors | Gallery | Girl Looking Back | Hansley (Front | Profile) | Hopi Ceremony | Hočąk Chiefs | Hočąk Group Photo | Hočąk Males | Hočąk Men | Hočąk Women | Hųwąnįka (Catlin | Painting) | Kakąčuka | Keramani | Lacrosse Players (Catlin) | Little Duck | Little Otter | Little Ox | Logan | Manąpega (Catlin) | Mayan Priest | Miwok Story Telling | Mohaves | Mrs. Street | Nąka (Painting, Large | Painting, Small | Catlin's Painting) | Nicollet's Landing at Red Banks (color)) | No Fool (Kansa) | Paiute Man | Redbird | Shawnee Prophet (Painting | Catlin) | Skull | Spaniard (Hočąk) | Sturgeon Head (Fox) | Sun Chief (Pawnee) | Tahcoloquoit (Fox) | The Crow | Thin Buckskin (Pima) | Tlingit Scene | Trickster (Trickster Receiving a Pipe | Trickster with a Pole | Trickster Seated) | Tsimshian Shamans | Wačihaska | Wakąga (Painting 1 | Painting 2) | Wak’ąhaga ("Snake Skin") (portrait | cited as informant) | Wakązika (Painting | Catlin Portrait) |Whirling Thunder | White Cloud, the Winnebago Prophet | Wife of Four Legs | Winnebago Prophet | Woman Standing in Rice | Woman Fleeing | Women Playing Lacrosse | Wonder | Yellow Thunder |
Pictographs, Pictograms, & Engravings
| Armband | Berdache (Crow) | Chins (Gottschall) | Crow Captive and His Wife | Deer from Warclub | Double Helices | Female Figure | Flesh's Disc (Twin, Gottschall) | Four-Legged Snake (Pictograph) | Four-Legged Snakes (Pictograph) | Ghost's Disc (Twin, Gottschall) | Ghost's Head (Twin, Gottschall) | Gorget & Apron | Gottschall Figure with Breasts | Gottschall Panel 5 | Huichol Diagram of the Earth | Lattice (Piasa Composition) | Merman with Net | Micmac Double Helix | Moon Figure's Disc (Gottschall) | Piasa | Piasa's Collar | Piasas (Wingless) | Piasa Swastika (Hamilton) | Piasa Swastika (Phillips & Brown) | Pictogram, "I did it" | Pictograms, "Life" & "Death" | Pictogram, "Prisoner" | Powerlines | Redhorn (Picture Cave) | Sirius (Picture Cave) | Red Figure (Gottschall) | Spirit Emblem | Thunderbird Chick | Thunderbird (Gottschall) | Two Captives | Two Captives b | Various (Pictograph) | Waterspirit 1 from Warclub | Good and Bad Waterspirits | Waterspirit & Thunderbird |
| Adze | Arrow (Whittled) | Aten Bas Relief (Egyptian) | Calendar Stick (Small Painting) | Calendar Stick (Large Painting) | Chief's Medallion | Column (Swirling) | Hoe (Notched) | Lodges (Lodge Construction Schematic (Dorsey) | Lodge by a Tree (Dorsey Drawing) | Medicine Rite Lodge) | Gottschall Head | Hočąk Eagle | Mississippian Images (Flower Cross Entwining Motif [Phillips IV.128] | Head [Phillips III.53] | Head [Phillips III.101] | Head with Entwining Motif [Phillips IV.131] | Head with Entwining Motif [Phillips VIB-2] | Kettle Ritual [Phillips IV.126]) | Marin Signature | Minoan Double Ax | Navajo Sand Painting | Oval Lodge | Oval Lodge Frame) | Shoshone Wikiup | Spatulate (Drilled) | Teepees | Trophies of War (Timucua) | Warclubs (Baldheaded Warclub | Flat Warclub) |
Insignias, Emblems, Signs, and Symbols
| The Chief's Medallion | de Carrie Coat of Arms | Disease Giver's Emblem | Dogrib Flag | Earth's Emblem | Earthmaker's Cross | Earthmaker's Emblem | Earthmaker Flag | Fire's Emblem | Heroka's Emblem | Indian Sign Language, "Medicine" | Indian Sign Language, "Sun, Moon, Star" | Innu Flag | Moon's Emblems | Morning Star's Emblem | Nightspirit Emblems | Scratch (Piasa Composition) | Solar Emblem | South Wind's Emblem | Thunderbird Emblem | Turtle's Emblem |
| Auklets | Bald Eagle (Drawing) | Bank Swallow | Bird Feeding Its Young | Blue Jay | Crane (Sandhill) | Curlew (Audubon Painting | Drawing) | Ducks (Flying Wood Duck | Old Squaw Ducks | Old Squaw Duck (Head)) | Flock of Birds (Photo) | Goose | Hawks & Kites (Black Hawk (= American Swallow-tail Kite) | Pigeon Hawk | Rough-Legged Hawk | Hawk & Quail (Small Picture | Large Picture) | Hummingbirds (Audubon Painting 1 | Audubon Painting 2) | Kaǧi (Crows & Ravens) (Crow (Audubon) | Crow's Nest | Raven (Audubon)) | King Bird | Kingfisher | Loon | Meadow Lark | Owls (Great Horned Owl | Owl at Night (Drawing) | Snowy Owl | Two Owls (Photo)) | Pheasant (Drawing) | Pigeon | Prairie Chicken | Robin | Quail (Bobwhite) (See Hawk & Quail) | Snow Bunting (Snowbird) | Swan (Photo) | Snowy Egret (Audubon Painting | Photo) | Turkeys (Wild Turkey (Audubon) | Wild Turkey (Audubon) 2 | Turkey with Spread Tail (Painting)) Vultures and Buzzards (Tropical (Photo) | Turkey Vulture | Black Vulture) |
| Bears (Black Bear | Brown Bears (Audubon Painting | Engraving) | Grizzly Bears (Audubon Painting | Photo) | Polar Bear (Drawing)) | Polar Bear | Buffalo (Profile (Photo) | Head (Engraving) | Herd (Photo)) | Chipmunk | Coyote (Coyote (Drawing) | Coyotes (Engraving | Photo) | Deer (Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3 | Drawing) | Dormouse | Elk | Fisher | Foxes (Fox (Drawing) | Gray Fox | Red Fox (painting by Bonheur)) | Horses | Marten | Minks (Audubon Painting | Wood Cut) Mountain Lions (Cougars, Pumas, Panthers) (Cougar (Drawing) | Puma (Photo)) | Muskrats (Audubon Painting | Engraving) | Opossums | Porcupines (Porcupine (Photo) | Porcupine in a Tree (Drawing)) | Rabbit (Photo) | Raccoons (Raccoon (Drawing) | Raccoon (Bitmap Drawing)) | Skunk | Squirrels (Gray Squirrel Eating an Acorn (Photo) | Squirrel (Photo) | Pine Squirrel (Photo)) | Wildcats (Bobcats, Lynx) (Bobcat (Photo) | Lynx | Wildcat) | Wolves (Black Wolf | Gray Wolves at a Kill (Photo) | Prairie Wolf | White Wolves (Photo)) | Wolf Track |
Animals of the Waters or Underworld
| Alligator | American Beaver | Crayfish (Photo) | Fish (Fish (Painting) | Fish Jumping (Drawing) | Sturgeon) | Frogs & Turtles (Golden Frog | Tortoise | Starred Tortoise | Sea Turtle) | Otter (wood cut) | White Otter | Snakes (Bull Snake | Diamond Backed Rattlesnake | Ribbon Snake) |
| Ants (Drawing) | Butterflies (Butterflies | Spotted Butterfly) | Cricket | Flea | Grasshopper | Horsefly 1 | Horsefly 2 | Lice (Body Louse | Crab Louse | Head Louse | Louse, Nit) |
| Acorn | Apios Americana Canuti | Apple Tree | Arbor Vitæ (White Cedar) (Arbor Vitæ (White Cedar) — Photo of Sprig | Arbor Vitæ (White Cedar) — Drawing of Leaves & Cones | Arbor Vitæ Cones (Buds)) | Artichokes | Barley | Basswood (Leaves | Tree) | Beans (Beans | Ground Beans) | Cattails | Chokeberry | Dog Tooth | Ferns (Maidenhair Ferns) | Groundnut Tubers | Jack Pine (Trees | Photo of Needles & Cones | Drawing of Needles & Cones) | Juniper (Red Cedar) (Sprig | Tree) | Maize (Field of Maize | Indian Corn | Yellow Maize) | Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa | Asclepias curassavica) | Mulberry | Pines | Pitcher Plant | Plums | Pond Lily | Poplars (Black Poplar | White Poplar | White Poplar Leaves) | Prairie Turnip (Plant | Tubers) | Red Oak | Rice (Menominee) | Roses (Rose (Painting) | The Wild Rose (Photo)) | Squash, Sacred Indian Rattle | Sumac | Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum) | Walnuts (Black Walnuts | Walnut Tree ID (Painting) | Walnut on Tree) | Wheat | Willow Leaves |
| 3-Deer & Venus | 3-Deer 933 AD | 3-Deer Setting | Aquilla | Aurora | Bear Knoll | Bear Lodge & Polaris | Bear Lodge & Sun, 7/11/1753 | Bow & Arrow Stars | Canis Major | Cirrus Clouds | Columba | Deneb & Its Vicinity | Deneb and Stretcher Asterism | Evening Star & the Moon, 1696 | Evening Star at Antares, 0715 | Evening Star at Antares, 0730 | Evening Star at Antares, Sunset | Evening Star's Course, 1741 | The Great Rift | Hand (Mississippian) | Jupiter, 1756.09.25 | Jupiter, 1757.12.09 | Lupus | Mamhuaztli | Milky Way as Tree, 0342 Hours | Milky Way as Tree, 0421 Hours | Milky Way as Tree, 0444 Hours | Milky Way as Tree, 0543 Hours | Milky Way at Scorpius | Morning Star's Trail | Orion & the Path of the Moon | Orion & the Path of the Moon, 2 | Orion as Fire Drill, Sunrise | Orion as Fire Drill, Sunset | Orion: Įčorúšika and His 2 Brothers | Orion as an Ax | Orion's Belt and Sword Stars | Orion Constellation | Orion as Hand | Orion as Packing Strap | Orion Star Colors |Orion Stellagraphy | Polaris & the Milky Way at the Summer Solstice | Polaris & the Pointer Stars of the Dipper | Polaris & the Sun at the Summer Solstice | Polaris in April | Polaris in August | Polaris in December | Polaris in February | Polaris in October | Polaris Earbob Stars | Redhorn's Ear Stars | Redhorn Pattern in Orion | Sagittarius | Scorpius | Scorpius, 1750 | Sirius, Heliacal Rising | Sirius & the Sun on the Same Side of the Milky Way, 7/27/933 | Sirius & the Sun on the Same Side of the Milky Way, 5/15/934 | Sunrise, August 22, 1729 | Taurus | Thunderbird Asterism | Wrinkles on the Face of the Sun |
Aztec Day Signs, in Temporal Order | Cipactli, Ehecatl, Calli, Cuetzpalin, Coatl, Miquiztli, Mazatl, Tochtli, Atl, Itzcuintli, Ozomahtli, Malinalli, Acatl, Ocelotl, Cuauhtli, Cozcacuauhtli, Ollin, Tecpatl, Quiahuitl, Xochitl | Aztec Yearbearer Cycle |
| Balanced Rock | Barn Bluff | Devil's Doorway | Devil's Lake, Scene 1 | Devil's Lake, Scene 2 | Eagle Cave Room | Ft. de Chartres | Lake Mendota | Maiden Rock | Petenwell Rock | Pheasant Branch | Pulpit (Standing) Rock | Red Wing's Village | Trempealeau Mountain | Waterfall (Photo) | Wisconsin Dells | Yahara River |
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