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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Buildings and structures in Crawford County, Wisconsin, Education in Crawford County, Wisconsin, Geography of Crawford County, Wisconsin, People from Crawford County, Wisconsin, Ho-Chunk, Kickapoo River, Walter Bradford Cannon, Joseph M. Street, Simon Benson, National Register of Historic Places listings in Crawford County, Wisconsin, Nicholas Boilvin, Patrick Lucey, Campion High School, Pat Bowlen, Black Hawk Tree, Black Hawk Bridge, Hercules L. Dousman, Bernard Walter Brisbois, H. Louis Dousman, Michel Brisbois, Atley Peterson, Wapello, WKPO, Prairie du Chien Municipal Airport, Jeris McIntyre, Lock and Dam No. 9, Astor Fur Warehouse, Brisbois House, Barbara Bedford, Dousman Hotel, Thomas Mower McDougall, WQPC, Fort Shelby, Lake Winneshiek, William Miller Wallace, Wiram Knowlton, William T. Sterling, Jeremiah Burnham Tainter, Leitner Creek, Prairie du Chien Area School District, Riverdale School District, Sacred Heart College. Excerpt: The Ho-Chunk, also known as Winnebago, are a tribe of Native Americans, native to what is now Wisconsin and Illinois. There are two federally recognized Ho-Chunk tribes, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The term "Winnebago" originally came from an exonym, that is, an Algonquian name given to the people by neighboring Algonquian-speaking tribes, such as the Fox, Sauk, and Ojibway (Ojibwe/Chippewa). Various spellings exist, reflecting the French and English colonists' attempts to record transliterations of the Alongquian words. These include: "Winnebago, Wiinibiigoo, Wuinebagoes, Ouinepegi, Ouinipegouek, and Winipeg." This name has been variously translated as, "people of the stinking water," "people of the filthy water," "people of the stagnant water'" and "people of the smelly waters." The Algonquian words do not have the negative overtones attached t...