''Their Side of the Story: The Ho-Chunk at the Portage'' Lecture 3 of 4

 

The Historic Indian Agency House continues its popular 4-part speaker series exploring Ho-Chunk history and culture. The series, entitled “Their Side of the Story”: The Ho-Chunk at the Portage, consists of one lecture a month, with only August and September’s installments remaining. Each lecture, held on the last Tuesday of the month, focuses on a different aspect of the Ho-Chunk experience in the Portage area.

The third installment of the series will take place on Tuesday, August 31 at 6:30PM. At this time, UW-Waukesha Professor Robert Birmingham will present “Ancient Native Cultures of the Wisconsin River Region.” This illustrated presentation will cover 11,000 years of Native American occupation of the Columbia County area, highlighting unique archaeological sites. A former longtime State Archaeologist with the Wisconsin Historical Society, Professor Birmingham is aslo the co-author of the award-winning books Indian Mounds of Wisconsin and Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town. His newest publication is Spirits of the Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes. Copies of his works will be available for purchase the evening of the lecture. Maybe he’ll even sign one for you—who knows!

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.

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.