…Platteville.

Primarily hunters and gatherers, the Ho-Chunk or, as they are commonly called by rival tribes, Winnebago (Algonquian for "people of the filthy water," referring to the algae-rich, dead-fish-clogged Fox River and Lake Winnebago in eastern Wisconsin where the tribe lives), become a village people, often residing in permanent urbanlike settlements of as many as one hundred persons.

In the fields around their domed wigwams, they raise maize, squash, beans, and tobacco, and periodically hunt bison.