ABSTRACT
Archaeologists and ethnohistorians have inferred a link between the Ho-Chunk and the Upper Mississippian traditions in the Western Great Lakes, especially to Oneota (Mott 1938; Overstreet 1976, 1978, 1993). More recently, equally compelling arguments have suggested a link between at least portions of the Chiwere-Ho-Chunk speaking populations and the earlier Late Woodland Effigy Mound tradition (e.g. Hall 1993; Salzer 1996; Staeck 1994, 1996). These latter
arguments follow distantly upon the published Ho-Chunk claim that they were the authors of the Late Woodland period’s Effigy Mound tradition (Radin 1911), a claim that continues today.
