"Thunder Speaker -- Indn. name of Old Dandy -- his earlier name in the prime of life Hoo-tcope-kah [Hujopka] -- or Four-Legs: After a noted speech of great power he [acquired] the name of Thunder Speaker -- He was the most noted hero of his tribe -- in many fights -- once in [the] town of Lemonweis 4 [miles] from Mauston S.E., he hid in [a] tree for 3 days to evade U. S. soldiers searching to capture him. About 5 feet 10 1/2 ins. high -- weighing about 190 lbs., broad shoulders, muscular. He was the orator of his tribe -- [he] had no equal." [1]

Commentary. "Thunder Speaker" — the attempts to render the name "Thunder Speaker" in Hotcâk were unintelligible. One version is Cun-cah-ychei-kah.

"Lemonweis" — this is Lemonweir.

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Stories: about famous Hočąk warriors and warleaders: How Little Priest went out as a Soldier, The Masaxe War (Hogimasąga), Wazųka, Great Walker's Warpath (Great Walker), Great Walker's Medicine (Great Walker, Smoke Walker, Dog Head, Small Snake), Šųgepaga (Dog Head), The Shawnee Prophet — What He Told the Hočągara (Smoke Walker, Dog Head, Small Snake), Big Thunder Teaches Čap'ósgaga the Warpath (Big Thunder, Čap'ósgaga), The Osage Massacre (Big Thunder, Čap'ósgaga), The Fox-Hočąk War (Čap'ósgaga), White Thunder's Warpath, The Man who Fought against Forty (Mąčosepka), The Blessings of the Buffalo Spirits, Fighting Retreat, Mitchell Red Cloud, jr. Wins the Medal of Honor (Mitchell Red Cloud, jr.), They Owe a Bullet (Pawnee Shooter).

Notes

[1] Thomas J. George, Winnebago Vocabulary, 4989 Winnebago (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, 1885) p. 96. Informants: Big Bear of Friendship, Wisconsin, and Big Thunder.